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From: walter@hpclwjm.HP.COM (Walter Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: is f().c legal?  How about (&(f()))->c ?
Message-ID: <12570006@hpclwjm.HP.COM>
Date: 31 Jan 89 00:57:57 GMT
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>    I got that info from Harbinson and Steele.  I have the May Draft of ANSI,
>    but cant find the page where it mentions that.  Can anyone point me to
>    the appropriate ANSI section number?

> David Lai 

Section 3.3.3.2.  Unary & requires an lvalue.
Section 3.3.2.3.  The . operator does not require an lvalue.  If the
		  left operand is an lvalue, the result is an lvalue.
Especially, see section 3.3.2.3 of the Rationale.

By the way, the HP-UX compiler for the Series 800, which is not derived
from PCC, gets this right.

Walter Murray
HP, California Language Lab
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