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From: boemker@hpfcdc.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Question about type casting
Message-ID: <5080012@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Jan 88 22:29:21 GMT
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Organization: HP Ft. Collins, Co.
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Posted: Thu Jan 14 17:29:21 1988

> I believe that Standard C does not allow type casting on the left of the 
> = sign.
 
How about this:

int i;
char *c;

c = (char *) &i;

* (int *) c = 0;

Are you saying that Standard C doesn't allow c to be recast in that assignment?

> I have also discovered that SUN and APOLLO C allow this while most other C
> compilers do not???!

So the Sun accepts constructions like ((int [1]) i) [0] = 0; ?
Does it work?