Hello, I am doing a research project and for it I need a way to detect the parsing of the following line of code: String = (char *) malloc(1000); In c-parse.in I found a call to build_modify_expr which is defined in c-typeck.c. There's little comments to go along with this function, but from what I understand this function just builds any statement such that the right hand side modifies the left hand side. Including just assigning the RHS to LHS. But suppose I had the following statement: char * String = (char *) malloc(1000); Somehow I don't think build_modify_expr is called in this situation. From what I understand start_init is called to initialize this cariable. So, I am a little confused about which cases are covered by build_modify_expr. I would appreciate any information on build_modify_expr. Thank you. P.S. I am using GCC 2.7.2 and I do realize that this is a very old version, however I don't have a choice, I must use GCC 2.7.2. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/build_modify_expr-tp14984929p14984929.html Sent from the gcc - Help mailing list archive at Nabble.com.