From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: yet ANOTHER allegro question... EASY
Date: Sat, 7 Jun 1997 08:39:17 +0100
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SteelGolem writes:
>alleg2.c: In function 'main':
>alleg2.c:13: request for member 'w' in something not a structure or
>union
...
>  printf( "width of bmp is %d\n", *bmp.w );

Try bmp->w, or (*bmp).w. In C, the structure member operators (. and ->)
have a higher precedence than the pointer dereference, so your statement
is being evaluated in the wrong order.


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