generalized lvalues -- patch outline

[Marcus G. Daniels]

Dale Johannesen wrote:

> Maybe so, but the file is included as part of the 176.gcc benchmark, 
> and caused
> compilation errors when gcc dropped support for this (mis)feature.

Fwiw, I ran in to the problem with an Objective C application.   It's 
convenient to store predispatched methods as function pointers, with all 
of their argument types.  However, the Objective method lookup methods 
return a generic IMP type which doesn't have that information.  So 
casting on the LHS means that the pointer is stored to the right 
function pointer type, but the RHS is doesn't need to reiterate it (the 
function pointer can be quite complicated).