Lvalues and casts

[Doug Gwyn]

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, to the contrary it is not, and that is what the compiler is trying
to tell you in its obscure way.  The target of an assignment is required
to be a modifiable lvalue.