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From: tony@oha.UUCP (Tony Olekshy)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: When is a statement an expression?
Summary: Xenix C gets it right: sur-prise sur-prise....
Message-ID: <306@oha.UUCP>
Date: 6 May 89 08:27:41 GMT
References: <1043@itivax.iti.org>
Organization: Olekshy Hoover & Associates Ltd., Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
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In <1043@itivax.iti.org>, Steve Simmons (scs@vax3.iti.org) writes...
>
>	main() { int a = 0 ; a = if ( a == 1 ) 12 ; else 14 ; }
> 
> We tried it out on all the C compilers we could find (BSD 4.3, Gould,
> UNIX-PC, gcc) and it fails.  But the error messages are quite cryptic...

Well, well, well, if anyone praised the Xenix C compiler I would be the
first to provide lists of bugs, but I tried the above (too tired to party)
and cc said:

	@test.c(1) : error 59: syntax error : 'if'
	@test.c(1) : error 59: syntax error : 'constant'
	@test.c(1) : error 59: syntax error : 'else'

Sounds right to me.

Yours, etc., Tony Olekshy (...!alberta!oha!tony or tony@oha.UUCP).