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From: blarson@skat.usc.edu (Bob Larson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lvalues and casts
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Date: 23 May 89 17:19:53 GMT
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In article <847@tub.UUCP> net@tub.UUCP (Oliver Laumann) writes:
>	(int *)cp = ip;

>The PCC, however, says "illegal lvalue in assignment".  Is this legal
>C, i.e. is the result of a cast really an lvalue?

Casts are never lvalues.

Gcc documents this bug as a feature.  (Hopefully it is caught
by -pedantic)
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