On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:46:25 -0800, Juan Lang wrote: > Style point: (*pointer).whatever is written a bit more easily as > pointer->whatever. That'd make your new patch a good bit more readable.
Are they even equivalent? My impression was that (*pointer).whatever would make a temporary copy on the stack, set it, and then immediately throw away that copy. So it wouldn't actually set it at all. If there's a finer point of C I missed here then please do enlighten me ...
