Re: Legal ansi?

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From: Dave Hanson
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 1988 11:58

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In article <765@paris.ics.uci.edu> Doug Schmidt <schmidt@crimee.ics.uci.edu> writes:
	Hi,
	
	   Is the following short code legal Ansi-C?  gcc -ansi accepts it,
	gcc -pedantic rejects it, and the Sun 4.0 cc compiler also rejects it.
	
	...
	{      
	  (( P->Item > Item ) ? P->Left : P->Right ) = (Tree *) malloc(sizeof(Tree));
	}

no. conditional expressions are not l-values.

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Subject: Re: Legal ansi?
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