-= Pete Replied to Paul Edwards about: indirection =-

G'day Paul

 PE> int *x;
 PE> int y;

 PE> y = 3 * x;

this one generates the error C2121 "bad right operand"
and the warning C4047 "different levels of indirection"

 PE> y = * x;

 PE> y = *x;

These two compile without error with QC25 so i assume the space is
ignored as y is assigned the same value in both cases (whatever *a
points to) btw i added 'int z; x = &z; *x = 9;' after to test if y was
being assigned the same value in both cases 'example 2 & 3', it was.

 PE> Which ones do you reckon are legal?  I am wondering how mulitplication
 PE> and indirection are distinguished between.  Is the space significant?

Examples 2 & 3 seem legal so the space doesn't seem significant as in
both cases y is assigned what x points to, if example 1 is changed to
'y = 3 * *x;' or 'y = **x;' the result is 27 in both cases assuming
that "*x = 9 as i stated above" so again the space is ignored and x is
not misinterpreted as a pointer to a pointer. I'd say multiplication
and indirection are distinguished by the type of variable the result
is applied to.

   -=Pete=-

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