Lvalues and casts

[Henry Spencer]

In article <847 at tub.UUCP> net at 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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