Re: GCC 3.4 Heads-up

[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:23:31PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > In ANSI C you've no alternative except memcpy, since you can't cast
> > the pointer and reference the object via some other type (assuming
> > neither type is char, yadda yadda).
> 
> Sure you have. You can _always_ change
> 
> 	(a ? b : c) = d;
> 
> to
> 
> 	tmp = d;
> 	a ? (b = tmp) : (c = tmp);

No, I meant his bitfield macro at all.  You can't just go and 
construct a bit field at random and dereference it.


r~
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