GCC 4 Woes

[Jeffrey A Law]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 16:57 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 04:40:46PM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > >     n1  = *(((unsigned int *) src1)++);
> > Split up (1) the assignment of *src1 -> n1, and (2) the increment of
> > src1 into two distinct lines of code.  gcc 4 tightens handling of
> > lvalues and rvalues, which this code is abusing.
> 
> It'll also be about 700 times more readable done that way.
Not to mention that it's far more portable.  Casts-as-lvalues was a GCC
extension, I'm not aware of any other compiler which implements that
extension.

jeff