Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!samsung!caen!news.cs.indiana.edu!arizona.edu!arizona!dave From: dave@cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: What the hell does this mean?? Message-ID: <1083@caslon.cs.arizona.edu> Date: 7 Mar 91 23:37:07 GMT References: <6117@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> Organization: U of Arizona CS Dept, Tucson Lines: 13 In article <6117@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> robert@triton.JPL.NASA.GOV writes: >Hello fellow C programmers, > I have a small problem: > "spa_tclkutc.c", line 130: unacceptable operand of & > on this line > (void) sscanf(ptr,"%04d",&(primary.utc.dy)); The first thing that comes to mind is that primary was declared as a register variable. This is the only circumstance I am aware of that forbids use of the & operator. -- Dave Schaumann | dave@cs.arizona.edu | Short .sig's rule!