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From: sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Sjoerd Mullender)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: ambiguous why?
Message-ID: <690@sjoerd.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 8 Apr 88 11:42:08 GMT
References: <1303@PT.CS.CMU.EDU>
Reply-To: sjoerd@cs.vu.nl (Sjoerd Mullender)
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In article <1303@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> edw@IUS1.CS.CMU.EDU (Eddie Wyatt) writes:
[ complains that "*a+=*b;" gives a warning about an ambiguous assignment ]

There are compilers (pcc comes to mind) that consider "op =" to be two tokens,
whereas they consider "= op" to be one token.
So your code fragment is tokenized as follows:

	*
	a
	+
	=*	gives a warning
	b
	;
-- 
Sjoerd Mullender
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