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From: n8840371@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu (Todd Crowe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: More getch() woes
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.010307.19009@unicorn.cc.wwu.edu>
Date: 14 Mar 91 01:03:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.223020.18117@cs.mcgill.ca>
Organization: Western Washington University, Bellingham WA.
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Ok, I'll bite.  I'm no C guru like some people are here, but I can answer this.

storm@cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>The following program WITHOUT The line #include <conio.h> does not work.  It 
>just freezes the entire system up, and I have to reboot (usin TC++ 1.0 on a
>PC).  However, when I put the #include <conio.h>> line in, it doesn't even
>compile.  I get LValue required in function main, and it  point to the line
>c = 0;            ^
                   |
                 This should give you a good clue as to what is going on.

>#include <stdio.h>
>#include <conio.h>

>main()
>{
>   int i, test, c[25];

>   i = 0;
>   c = 0;

>  (rest of code deleted) 

>Any insight...?

Yep.  c is the name of an array.  As such it is a constant value (i.e. it
is not a valid lvalue).  You are in effect trying to assign a value to a
constant.  I'm not quite sure what you are trying to do with but you need
to either make it a scalar or an array but not both.

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