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In article <1732@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> olovsson@ce.chalmers.se writes:
>I have problems with hc accepting constructions like:
>    main()
>    {
>	int i;
>	(int)i = 0;
>    }
...
>All other C-compilers seem to accept this construction. For hc the line has to
>be changed to:
>
>    ((int) i) = 0;
>
>Is this correct (or intentional)?

I would hope that the former "problem" is intentional; it is correct.

The latter construct is essentially the same as the first.  It is also
incorrect, and the compiler should have complained.

Casts do not produce lvalues; you cannot assign to their results.
(See the proposed ANSI C standard, section 3.3.4, Cast Operators.)

-- Ken