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From: rjg1@mtgzy.att.com (r.j.greenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: floating pt errors..
Message-ID: <4795@mtgzy.att.com>
Date: 28 Feb 89 15:06:35 GMT
Organization: AT&T, Middletown NJ
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I recently developed an application on the 6386 running 5.3.2. I ported
my source over to a UNIX PC and noticed the the C-compiler issues an
error on an assgnmnt stmt referencing pointers to floating pt
variables, e.g..


double charge;
struct {
	double *charge;
} *p, *tmp;

	/* initialize all pointers - p, tmp. p->charge, tmp->charge .. */
	*p->charge = *tmp->charge = charge;

The error flagged by the compiler is: 
	compiler allocation error : op STAR;

When I broke up this multiple assnmnt into 2 stmts, it compiled cleanly..

	*tmp->charge = charge; *p->charge = *tmp->charge;

Any explanations ?

		R. Greenberg
		lzmi!rjg