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From: middleto@sdsu.UUCP (Tom Middleton)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: is f().c legal?  How about (&(f()))->c ?
Keywords: ansi
Message-ID: <3459@sdsu.UUCP>
Date: 2 Feb 89 07:10:06 GMT
References: <2648@vedge.UUCP>
Reply-To: middleto@sdsu.UCSD.EDU (Tom Middleton)
Organization: San Diego State University, Math/Sciences Dept.
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In article <2648@vedge.UUCP> lai@vedge.UUCP (David Lai) writes:
>Here f() returns a structure.

I may be missing the point here but it seems that one problem is f()
does not return a structure but rather a pointer to a structure.  I
don't know how an entire structure can be returned by a function.
This would imply that f()->c should be legal, but I don't know if
that is what you meant to say in the first place.  Seems to me that
&(f()) is the address of the pointer returned by the function f and
although (&(f()))-> is legal it isn't what you think it is.

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