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From: bliss@sp64.csrd.uiuc.edu (Brian Bliss)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assignment Ops and Side Effects
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Date: 5 Apr 91 23:46:36 GMT
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> For the compiler that thinks that sizeof(c += 1) is sizeof(int),
> I wonder what it thinks about sizeof(c = 1) or sizeof(c = 1.0) ?
(c is a char)

The compiler is Sun 4.0's cc, and indeed, it returns 1 for both cases.
So indeed it is the assignment that is responsible for coercing
the result back to char type.

bb