Re: [CODE][WIN95][MSVC5] A compiling error concerning L-values ...

From: George (greerga@circlemud.org)
Date: 12/01/98


On Tue, 1 Dec 1998, Yohay Etsion wrote:

>error C2106: "-="  : left operand must be l-value

Right.  GCC has an extension which lets you do that.

>#define GET_MANA(ch)   (!IS_NPC(ch) ?
>                            ((ch)->player_specials->linking[0] ? \
>                             (ch)->player_specials->manalinked : \
>                             (ch)->points.mana): (ch)->points.mana)

You can "fix" it by putting "*" outside the expression and "&" before each
of the variable references, excluding the linking one.

Or you can just make a SET_MANA() macro...

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