error: invalid lvalue in assignment

yyhkitty

Hi,

I keep getting two invalid lvalue in assignment errors. here's what my code looks like:

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 pthread_t msg_receive(char *sbuffer, int *maxlen) {

    // get the values for sbuffer and maxlen
 
    strcpy(sbuffer, current->message);

    &maxlen = current->messagelen;      // invalid lvalue here

}

current is a struct ptr with these attributes:

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 current {

    char *message;

    int messagelen;

    char *replymsg;

    int replylen;

}

the other place i'm getting the lvalue error is basically the same. me trying to deference an int to assign it a value from a struct.

I'd really appreciate if someone can tell me what i've done wrong.

thanks.

Ganon11

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&maxlen

& is not the de-reference operator, it's the address-of operator. You're using it to find the address of the pointer to an integer. You should be using *, like so:

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*maxlen

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