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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.std.c
Subject: Re: union *func()
Keywords: union, pointers, functions
Message-ID: <14245@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 29 Oct 88 23:23:24 GMT
References: <2205@arcturus> <1770@vedge.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <1770@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
>... I read somewhere (Harbison & Steele):
>
>	-> operator requires an object that is an lvalue

This is false.  -> *produces* an lvalue (with the usual exceptions for
arrays); it does not *require* one.
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