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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: lvalue types
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 09:12:37 -0700
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supercat@casperkitty.com writes:
[...]
> The ability to pass the address of an object to functions that can use
> the object, at least until the next time the object is addressed via other
> means, is no less fundamental than the ability to use the structure
> directly.  Both clang and gcc, however, *invent* a distinction between
> direct and indirect use of objects.

I'm probably going to regret asking this, but can you support the
claim in your last sentence?  (I request that you do so without
asking rhetorical questions.)

[...]

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