ABL electronic PIC Microcontrollers PIC16 - Manual (Page 61)

Lvalues
An lvalue is an object locator: an expression that designates an object. An example
of an lvalue expression is
*P
, where
P
is any expression evaluating to a non-null
pointer. A modifiable lvalue is an identifier or expression that relates to an object
that can be accessed and legally changed in memory. A const pointer to a constant,
for example, is not a modifiable lvalue. A pointer to a constant can be changed
(but its dereferenced value cannot).
Historically, the l stood for “left”, meaning that an lvalue could legally stand on
the left (the receiving end) of an assignment statement. Now only modifiable lval-
ues can legally stand to the left of an assignment operator. For example, if a and b
are nonconstant integer identifiers with properly allocated memory storage, they
are both modifiable lvalues, and assignments such as
a = 1
and
b = a + b
are
legal.
Rvalues
The expression
a + b
is not an lvalue:
a + b = a
is illegal because the expres-
sion on the left is not related to an object. Such expressions are sometimes called
rvalues (short for right values).
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