Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!rayssd!m1b
From: m1b@rayssd.ray.com (M. Joseph Barone)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Use of RMS from VAX C
Message-ID: <1817@rayssd.ray.com>
Date: 16 Feb 88 17:29:19 GMT
References: <8802150715.AA23998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Sender: m1b@rayssd.ray.com (M. Joseph Barone @ Raytheon Company, Portsmouth RI)
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In article <8802150715.AA23998@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU> XPMAINT@TAMVENUS.BITNET
(Shane Davis -- CSC XPrint Programmer) writes:
> 
> I'm trying to use the RMS services $PARSE and $SEARCH to process wildcard file
> specifications. However, the VAX C compiler (V2.3) flags an error "Invalid
> right operand of an &= operator" at this statement:
> 
> file_fab.fab$l_nam=&file_nam;

	The error message is a good indication of exactly what went wrong.
The old style AND bitwise operator can be represented by '=&'.  Apparently,
VAX C still supports this.  The compiler thinks you're trying to perform an
AND operation rather than store an address in a variable.  To get around
this problem, merely insert spaces around the '=', such as:

	file_fab.fab$l_nam = &file_nam;

Joe Barone ---------------------------> m1b@rayssd.RAY.COM
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