generalized lvalues -- patch outline

[Michael Matz]

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.


Ciao,
Michael.