Re: [gnet-dev] Build with Sun compiler

[Ives Aerts <ives sonycom com>]

On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 05:34:41PM +0100, martyn 2 russell bt com wrote:
> > Most changes are related to the fact that a (condition ? exp : exp)
> > expression is not an lvalue in C and hence can not be used in the left
> > hand side of an assignment. GCC seems to allow this but it is not
> > standard C.
> 
> Actually it is Standard C, see Conditional Expressions (2.11) Ansi C,
> Kernighan & Ritchie.

The conditional operator is ofcourse standard C. But it is not an
lvalue and can therefore not be used as the left hand part of an
assignment.

Check out this comp.lang.c FAQ entry:

  http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/q3.16.html

Cheers,
-Ives
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