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From: sjin@castle.ed.ac.uk (S.Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Another C compiler bug?
Message-ID: <5193@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 17 Jul 90 09:21:20 GMT
Reply-To: sjin@castle.ed.ac.uk (S.Jin)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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Is it a bug or not? I can compile the piece of program below successfully 
on Sun 3/60(4.0_Export), HP900/825(7.00). But I failed to do that on 4D 20 
under IRIX 3.2.

The program:

struct Alist_Entry
    {
    void *slot;
    } ;
main()
{
	register struct Alist_Entry *ap;
	*( (int *) (ap->slot) ) = 11;
	*((char *)(ap->slot)) = 'a';
}

The result on 4D 20 under IRIX 3.2:
$ cc foo.c	/* Suppose the program name as foo.c */
ccom: Error: foo.c, line 8: slot undefined
        *( (int *) (ap->slot) ) = 11;
      ---------------------^
ccom: Error: foo.c, line 8: member of structure or union required
        *( (int *) (ap->slot) ) = 11;
      ---------------------^
ccom: Error: foo.c, line 9: member of structure or union required
        *((char *)(ap->slot)) = 'a';
      --------------------^
$

Is it a bug? Any comments are welcome.

S. Jin