Re: [Pan-users] Re: make errors

[David Shochat]

On Jun 18, 2008, at 8:27 PM, walt wrote:
> This is quoted from  http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-3.4/changes.html :
>
> # The cast-as-lvalue extension has been removed for C++ and deprecated
> for C and Objective-C. In particular, code like this:
>
>        char *p;
>        ((int *) p)++;
>
> is no longer accepted for C++ and will not be accepted for C and
> Objective-C in a future version.
>
> Unfortunately I don't know the proper fix, but I'm hoping I'll get an
> answer to that question tomorrow in the gcc-help mailing list.

How about:

char *p;
...
int *q = (int *) p;
q++;
p = (char *) q;

That would have the same net effect and is accepted by gcc 4.2.3,  
which does not accept the original construct.
-- David