cond. op. on ='s LHS

[Stanley Friesen]

In article <335 at ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au> michi at ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:
>throopw at sheol.UUCP (Wayne Throop) writes:
>> this is irrelevant since the result of * always is [an lvalue].
                                          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>What about
 
>int	array[10][10];
 
>and an expression
 
>	*array
 
>The type of the expression after dereferencing is "array of 10 ints", which
>is *not* an lvalue.

Yes it is, at least according to the ANSI definition of lvalue.  It is just
not a *modifiable* lvalue.  [Of course this is 'promoted' to a pointer to int
in most contexts].
In fact the ANSI standard explicitely states that the result of the unary *
operator is an lvalue (with *no* conditions).
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