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Sat Sep 8 09:00:45 AEST 1990

In article <1990Sep7.080855.24070 at irisa.fr>, ridoux at irisa.fr (Olivier Ridoux) writes...
[...]
>My question is not on the validity of the composition of the operator `` & ''.
>It is rather "what is the rational of the cc and gcc compilers (sun4) that 
>makes them accept the following program.  Can I expect that every C compiler
>will have the same rational ?

     VAXC (VMS) rejects it:
[...]
>  printf( "%c\n", *(*( &(&(*(*(ppc)))) )) );  /* 1 */
%CC-E-INVOPERAND, Invalid operand of a "& (address-of)" operator.

(Same error repeated for the other similar lines.  VAXC V3.1)

                Pat Rankin, rankin at eql.caltech.edu