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From: ron@topaz.rutgers.edu (Ron Natalie)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Need help with structure pointers
Message-ID: <15477@topaz.rutgers.edu>
Date: Sat, 10-Oct-87 18:05:08 EDT
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Posted: Sat Oct 10 18:05:08 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 12-Oct-87 18:45:37 EDT
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Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J.
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The line

    stuff->*(++s) = 'X';

Should read
    *++stuff->s = 'X';

The only thing that can follow "->" (or ".") for that matter are
element names.  "stuff->s" is the character pointer in the structure
pointed to by stuff.  "->" binds tighter than everything else in the
expression.

-Ron