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From: edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: ambiguous why?
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Date: 4 Apr 88 21:03:27 GMT
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When I was playing around with that last example I posted, I got an
error message that said something to the extent:

	warning ambiguous assigment: assignment op taken
	syntax error at or near symbol *=

A simplified version of the statement is:

	int *a, *b;

	*a+=*b;

I thought that this should not be ambiguous since the lexer scans left to right.
Is there some l to r rule that disambiguates this statement or did I
just make it up?
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Eddie Wyatt 				e-mail: edw@ius1.cs.cmu.edu