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From: darin@Apple.COM (Darin Adler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: foo = *((bar *)stuff)
Message-ID: <1507@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 24 Apr 89 00:31:07 GMT
References: <713@tekno.chalmers.se>
Organization: Apple
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In article <713@tekno.chalmers.se> d83_sven_a@tekno.chalmers.se (Sven (Sciz) Axelsson) writes:
> Am I really out of line, or is this a true-to-God bug in the final release
> of MPW C 3.0?? Isn't this code supposed to assign the integer value contained
> at memory position 10 to the variable x?
> 
>         x = *((int *)10);
> 
> In MPW C 3.0 this generates exactly the same code as would x = 10.
> Am I right or am I right?

Yes, the code should get the value contained at memory position 10. When I
compiled the sequence of code with MPW C 3.0 it generated

	move.l	$a,d7

This gets the value contained at memory position 10. x = 10 would generate
moveq.l #$a,d7 instead. (Note the # means immediate mode.)
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