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From: Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
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Subject: Re: Difference between these pointer syntaxes
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Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> writes:
> Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:
> <snip>
>> In fact *all* expressions of array type are lvalues (I'm not quite
>> 100% certain of that).
>
> I can't find any text that tells me that "abc" is an lvalue expression.

N1570 6.5.1 (Primary expressions), paragraph 4:

    A string literal is a primary expression. It is an lvalue with type
    as detailed in 6.4.5.

What's interesting, though, is that 6.4.5 (String literals) describes
in great detail the array object associated with a string literal,
but it never gets around to saying that the string literal refers
to the array object.  6.5.1 specifies its types, but not its value.
I suppose the authors thought it was sufficiently obvious.

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