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From: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: A cast pointer is NOT an lvalue!? (ANSI C)
Summary: unary * converts cast pointer to an lvalue
Keywords: X3J11, pointers, cast, lvalue
Message-ID: <329@talos.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 88 20:01:18 GMT
References: <479@midgard.mn.org>
Reply-To: kjones@talos.UUCP (Kyle Jones)
Organization: Philip Morris Research Center, Richmond, VA
Lines: 5

In article <479@midgard.mn.org> dal@syntel.UUCP (Dale Schumacher) writes:
>    if(p = malloc(sizeof(struct big_thing)))
>        *((struct big_thing *) p) = big;

This is valid.  The unary * converts cast pointer to an lvalue.