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From: dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga programmer's hint $14
Message-ID: <8803062057.AA19608@cory.Berkeley.EDU>
Date: 6 Mar 88 20:57:44 GMT
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:In article <8803032106.AA06910@cory.Berkeley.EDU> dillon@CORY.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
:>
:> <CASTS> On the left side of an assignment?  Yow! That isn't C.
:I have done this kind of thing now and then, and I believe that it's
:legal C.  I have not yet discovered a compiler that complains about this:
:    * (struct point *) &r.x1 = p1;
:    * (struct point *) &r.x2 = p2;
:}
:
:-scott

	Sure, that works fine.  What I meant was assigning something TO
a cast, ala:	(long)x = 43;  is what is illegal.  One thing to remember
is that structure assignment is somewhat new in C, and thus not all compilers
have been upgraded to it yet.

						-Matt