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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: A diagnostic "gotcha"
Message-ID: <648@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 5-Feb-86 16:48:35 EST
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Posted: Wed Feb  5 16:48:35 1986
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Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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A line of C code that looked like:

	node_mem[*dotp] = val & 0xff;

produced the diagonistic "operands of + have incompatible types."  The
error was that *dotp was not of type int, and a[b] being a euphemism for
*(a + b), it complained about the operands of addition.
-- 
Herb Kanner
McDonnell Douglas (TYMNET)
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