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From: cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Lattice C v5.0 Bug, Is it fixed in 5.02?
Message-ID: <90454@sun.uucp>
Date: 19 Feb 89 20:28:03 GMT
References: <9035@louie.udel.EDU>
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Reply-To: cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis)
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In article <9035@louie.udel.EDU> (Brian Suggs) writes:
-> The following code produces an error when compiled with the
-> Lattice v5.0 compiler:
->
-> /********************************/
-> extern char array[];
-> void fails()
-> {
->   array[123456] = 'x';
-> }
-> /********************************/
->
-> The error given is:
-> test.c 5 Error 25: modifiable lvalue required
->
->      I have tried using the -b0 option as well as a number
-> of others with no change.  Through some experimenting I
-> found that if the index of the array is less than 32767 the
-> code compiles without errors.  Curiously, it must be strictly
-> less than 32767; 32767 won't work but 32766 will.

Are you using the "-w" option for 16bit ints? If so try 123456L rather
than just the value. There is (was?) a bug in that the compiler was 
trying to make *everything* an int even when some constants were 
implicitly a long. 


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