Re: Regarding assignment to struct

On Wed, 07 May 2025 14:23:57 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca> writes:

On Tue, 06 May 2025 13:21:38 -0700, Keith Thompson wrote:

The change from "lvalue" to "expression" was made in C99.  I wonder why
that was done.

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It's not mentioned in the rationale, so we can only guess.  But it is
called out in the list of major changes in the C99 foreword.

 
I've just looked at the foreword of the C99 standard and the n1256
draft, and I couldn't find it.  Can you quote the precise wording?

N1256 page xiii.  Fourth to last bullet point:

  "-- conversion of array to pointer not limited to lvalues"