Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 05:45:50 -0700 (PDT) From: "Chris J. Layne" <coredump@nervosa.com> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freefall.freebsd.org, jkh@freefall.freebsd.org, scrappy@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: gnu/373 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960527053636.10462A-100000@onyx.nervosa.com> In-Reply-To: <199605270814.SAA28182@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Mon, 27 May 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:
> Close it and "hope" it was never mentioned. There is no bug. The pointer
> dereference is valid. The error message is the same as for
>
> struct { int i; } foo; void bar(void) { if (foo) baz(); }
>
> The test would be better written as `if (foo != NULL)'. Then it is obvious
> that there is a binary operator `!='. Structs are invalid operands for
> '!='.
> Bruce
Than wouldn't that be illegal? Why not:
struct { int i; } foo; void bar(void) { if (foo.i) baz(); }
or
struct type_1 { int i; } *foo;
foo = (struct type_1 *)malloc(sizeof(struct type_1));
void bar(void) { if (foo) baz(); }
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