Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Lvalues and casts
Message-ID: <1989May23.225818.9602@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <847@tub.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23 May 89 22:58:18 GMT

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?

No.  Many compilers have accepted it, historically, but it has never
been legal C and it is not legal ANSI C.
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