Re: Top 10 most common hard skills listed on resumes...

Bart <bc@freeuk.com> writes:
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That is, if something is a legal LHS term, then its syntax, and its
type, are identical to that term appearing on the RHS.
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(And by its type, I mean its base type. So given 'int a,b; a=b;', I'm
talking about 'int' not 'int*'.)
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There can additionally be similarities within internal representations.

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I don't know why you mention int* or what you mean by "base type".

Given

    int a,b; a=b;

there is no explicit or implicit expression or value of type int*.
The LHS of the assignment is an lvalue of type int that designates
an object.  Nothing in C suggests that the object's address is
computed as a value of type int*.  This is why assignment to bit
fields and register-qualified objects don't need to be treated as
special cases.

Certainly the generated machine code might cause the address of `a` to
be computed, but that's an implementation detail.

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */