cond. op. on ='s LHS

[Anthony Lapadula]

In article <5669:Feb2020:23:4791 at kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd at kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
>
>None of this is relevant to the question at hand, which is whether
>
>  *(cond ? &a : &b) = x
>
>is valid. It is, provided that a = x and b = x are valid. It will work
>under any sane compiler. It must work under an ANSI compiler.

Not true.  Consider

	int a;
	char b;
	int x;

Certainly ``a = x'' and ``b = x'' are valid, but ``*(cond ? &a : &b) = x''
is not.

-- Anthony (uunet!unhd!al, al at cs.unh.edu) Lapadula

"I would agree with you if you were right."  --  Dr Sayer, "Awakenings"