Re: GCC 3.4 Heads-up

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, Richard Henderson wrote:
> 
> In ANSI C you've no alternative except memcpy, since you can't cast
> the pointer and reference the object via some other type (assuming
> neither type is char, yadda yadda).

Sure you have. You can _always_ change

	(a ? b : c) = d;

to

	tmp = d;
	a ? (b = tmp) : (c = tmp);

which is not pretty, but with some macro abuse it won't be horrible. In 
fact, once you do that, you might as well just do a real "if" statement. 

Especially if you're going to continue to use (less odious) gcc-specific
stuff you can probably automate it fairly well with a replacement that
uses "typeof" and expresstion statements to do that "tmp" variable
properly.

Ie it might be _slightly_ more complex than running a "sed" script over
the sources, but it shouldn't be that much worse.

		Linus
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