Compilation error

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 08 September 2007, kannappan at tesbv.com wrote:
> i have the following piece of code which gives compilation error (like
> lvalue requried...)  may be bug with the compiler
>
> uchar *s;
>
> *((ushort *)s)++ = val;
>
> if i change that to
>   *(ushort *)s = val;
>   s+=2;
>
> it works fine.
>
> I am using uclibc 0.9.29, gcc 4.1.2, binutils 2.17.

the system libc is irrelevant so in the future, please post your code 
questions to one of the gcc mailing lists (like gcc-help) ... but as already 
noted, the code here is just plain wrong
-mike
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