Why is this code fragment not compiling?

[Mahesh Subramanya]

I have been beating my head against this for pretty much the whole night, 
and am starting to doubt my own sanity.  I've been trying to get some C 
compiled on a DecSystem 3100 running Ultrix 3.1 (Rev. 15) and have been 
unsuccesful (very).  I finally managed to isolate the problem  to one
particular fragment - the following:


main()
{
	int *lgstr;
	int *numlist;
	int indexval;

	
	*numlist++ = (  lgstr[indexval] || 1  );

}


What, pray what is wrong with the above?  Is there something incredibly
boneheaded that I am doing?  On trying to compile  (with   cc test.c  ),
I get the error

(ccom): test.c, line 10: ccom: Internal: wasted space: 2001725020
	}
	^

It seems to merrily compile on every other machine that I have tried it on.

Thanx a million for any idea.  (The above line of code may look rather
stupid, but it WILL NOT compile)


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