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From: psm@manta.NOSC.MIL (Scot Mcintosh)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Casting the lvalue
Message-ID: <1025@manta.NOSC.MIL>
Date: 6 Mar 90 01:45:19 GMT
Reply-To: psm@manta.nosc.mil.UUCP (Scot Mcintosh)
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Organization: Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego
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The following seems to be illegal (at least under Microsoft C
version 5.1):
(int)array[1] = 5;

while this appears to be ok:
*(int *)&array[1] = 5;

Question: why is the first form illegal, and is there
a more 'elegant' way than the second form to accomplish
the same thing?

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