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From: gwyn@brl-tgr.ARPA (Doug Gwyn <gwyn>)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: pcc compiler error
Message-ID: <8497@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 22-Feb-85 19:56:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 22 19:56:44 1985
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> > >		struct xy *p;
> > >	 	if (*p) {
> > >			/* compiler error: zzzcode- bad type */
>
> Since the code is legal, lint has no reason to complain.  The
> error message you received indicated that the back end of your
> compiler was not able to generate code.  There are C compilers
> that will compile this program.

As previously posted, this is NOT legal C.  What does it mean to
test a struct for zeroness?  One could presumably add something to
C for this case but it seems pretty bogus to me.