union *func()

[Guido van Rossum]

In article <14201 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <1585 at solo8.cs.vu.nl> maart at cs.vu.nl (Maarten Litmaath) asks
>why the restriction exists.

Chris's original posting said that "v = func().a" is legal, unless a is
an array.  The reason was that C has no array assignment, not that
there's anything special with array members of structs returned by
functions.  A less confusing way to state the ruls is that "func().a" is
legal, but as an rvalue only.
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