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From: hugh@fivegl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: cond. op. on ='s LHS
Message-ID: <1991Feb18.141615.4381@fivegl.co.nz>
Date: 18 Feb 91 14:16:15 GMT
References: <4155@cernvax.cern.ch> <1991Feb13.223412.28254@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: hugh@fivegl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Organization: 5GL International Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand
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In article <1991Feb13.223412.28254@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <4155@cernvax.cern.ch> burow@cernvax.cern.ch (burkhard burow) writes:
>>I'm wondering if anyone has any comments on using:
>>
>>       *(a==b?&c:&d) = 1;

[general Ugh comments...]

>The only time I would use the first form is in a macro, in a situation
>where I really wanted an expression rather than a statement.  But that's
>all.

Even then it would be better to use...

#define cord(a,b,c,d) (a==b?c=1:d=1)

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