Pointer Addition Fails With Structures

[MrZebra 0]

Pointer addition only seems to work for inbuilt data types, not for structures.

I've made a minimal test case to reproduce this, below.

I guess I could get around it by casting to a char* and adding on sizeof(s), then casting back... but that's kind of annoying!

The fact that "s++" works but "s+=1" doesn't definately looks like a bug!

 

#include <system.h>

struct ST
{
unsigned char x;
};

void main(void)
{
struct ST *s;		// Pointer to structure
unsigned char *c;	// Pointer to character

c++;	// OK
s++;	// OK
c += 1;	// OK
s += 1;	// error: illegal operation for operands 'unsigned char' and 'struct ST*'
}

 

Gives the result

 

Executing: "C:\Program Files\SourceBoost\boostc.pic18.exe" usb.c -O1 -W1 -t 18F2450

BoostC Optimizing C Compiler Version 6.81 (for PIC18 architecture)

(snip)

C:\MrZebra\RaveRaffe\PIC\USBRaffe\usb.c(29): error: illegal operation for operands 'unsigned char' and 'struct ST*'

C:\MrZebra\RaveRaffe\PIC\USBRaffe\usb.c(29:4): error: failed to generate expression

[Dave 0]

Executing: "C:\Program Files\SourceBoost\boostc.pic18.exe" usb.c -O1 -W1 -t 18F2450

BoostC Optimizing C Compiler Version 6.81 (for PIC18 architecture)

(snip)

C:\MrZebra\RaveRaffe\PIC\USBRaffe\usb.c(29): error: illegal operation for operands 'unsigned char' and 'struct ST*'

C:\MrZebra\RaveRaffe\PIC\USBRaffe\usb.c(29:4): error: failed to generate expression

Fixed in V6.82.

 

Regards

Dave