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Date: Mon, 27 May 1996 05:45:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Chris J. Layne" <coredump@nervosa.com>
To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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Subject: Re: gnu/373
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On Mon, 27 May 1996, Bruce Evans wrote:

> Close it and "hope" it was never mentioned.  There is no bug.  The pointer
> dereference is valid.  The error message is the same as for
> 
> 	struct { int i; } foo;  void bar(void) { if (foo) baz(); }
> 
> The test would be better written as `if (foo != NULL)'.  Then it is obvious
> that there is a binary operator `!='.  Structs are invalid operands for
> '!='.
> Bruce

Than wouldn't that be illegal? Why not: 

struct { int i; } foo; void bar(void) { if (foo.i) baz(); }

or

struct type_1 { int i; } *foo;
foo = (struct type_1 *)malloc(sizeof(struct type_1));
void bar(void) { if (foo) baz(); }

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