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Re: generalized lvalues -- patch outline
Michael Matz <matz@suse.de> writes:
| Hi,
|
| On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Andrew Pinski wrote:
|
| > if you had the following:
| >
| > ((int*)a)++;
| >
| > the better idea would be:
| >
| > char *a1 = (char*)a;
| > a1 += sizeof(int)/sizeof(char);
| > a = (typeof(a))(a1);
|
| Ah, yes ;-)
|
| I disagree. The better idea would have been if the C language would allow
| for the first construct. It's shorter, and by giving this rewriting rule
| seems also to be easy to define.
Short is good, when it does not introduce confusion and unnecessary
complexity.
Specialized macros for such questionable constructs are better.
-- Gaby