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From: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: A diagnostic "gotcha"
Message-ID: <659@tymix.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 11-Feb-86 12:49:29 EST
Article-I.D.: tymix.659
Posted: Tue Feb 11 12:49:29 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 13-Feb-86 17:15:48 EST
References: <648@tymix.UUCP>
Reply-To: kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner)
Organization: Tymnet Inc., Cupertino CA
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In article <648@tymix.UUCP> kanner@tymix.UUCP (Herb Kanner) writes:
>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.

I received the following note:

	Subject: Re: A diagnostic "gotcha"
	Newsgroups: net.lang.c
	In-Reply-To: <648@tymix.UUCP>
	Organization: Hadron, Inc., Fairfax, VA
	Status: RO

	Wouldst be so good as to tell the Net what version of C, and
	what machine?   They're all different, to some degree, in the
	issued diagnostics.
	-- 

		Joe Yao		hadron!jsdy@seismo.{CSS.GOV,ARPA,UUCP}

Sorry about that.  It is the standard C compiler on 4.2BSD running on a 
VAX 750.
-- 
Herb Kanner
McDonnell Douglas (TYMNET)
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