Re: GCC 3.4 Heads-up

[H. Peter Anvin]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Similarly, what the _hell_ does the gcc extension
>
> 	int a;
>
> 	(char)a += b;
>
> really mean? The whole extension is just braindamaged, again probably 
> because there were non-C people involved at some point. It's very much 
> against the C philosophy. I bet 99% of the people on this list have no 
> clue what the exact semantics of the above are.

Oh, right.  When I heard "cast as lvalue" I envisioned:

*(char *)foo = bar;

... being a warning, but that's not a cast, even though the pointer is.

	-hpa



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