What the hell does this mean??

[Robert Earl]

In article <1083 at caslon.cs.arizona.edu> dave at cs.arizona.edu (Dave P. Schaumann) writes:

|   In article <6117 at mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov> robert at triton.JPL.NASA.GOV writes:
|   >Hello fellow C programmers,
|   >	I have a small problem:
|   >		"spa_tclkutc.c", line 130: unacceptable operand of &
|   >	on this line
|   >		(void) sscanf(ptr,"%04d",&(primary.utc.dy));
|
|   The first thing that comes to mind is that primary was declared as a
|   register variable.  This is the only circumstance I am aware of that
|   forbids use of the & operator.

If "dy" is a bitfield member of the struct, as in:

      struct foo {
	int dy : 5;
      };

you cannot take its address.


--robert earl