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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: LLastClick assignment in C
Keywords: LSC, C, List Manager, novice programmer, LLastClick, spam
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Date: 3 Jan 90 09:05:19 GMT
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In article <34554@mirror.UUCP> francis@prism.TMC.COM (Joe Francis) writes:
>Cell	cell;
>
>cell = LLastClick(...);
>
>I get the message "illegal operation on struct/union".

This is a documented wart in THINK C, having to do with an interawction
for the non-C way that Mac calls return structs. Here is a work around
that generates zero extra code:

Cell	cel;

*((long *) &cell) = LLastClick(...);

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