// Illustrates precedence of field selector (.) over the
// dereference operator (*).
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>

using namespace std;

const int f3size = 20;

typedef struct {
   int   field1;
   float field2;
   char  field3[f3size];
} rectype;

typedef rectype *recPtr;

void main() {

   rectype rec1 = {1, 3.1415f, "pi"};

   recPtr  r1ptr;
   r1ptr = &rec1;

   cout << (*r1ptr).field1 << endl
        << (*r1ptr).field2 << endl
        << (*r1ptr).field3 << endl
        << endl;

// In the following code, the field selector is applied first, which produces the
// quoted error message since r1ptr is not a struct variable.
//
//   cout << *r1ptr.field1 << endl // c2228:  left of '.field1' must have class/struct/union type
//        << *r1ptr.field2 << endl
//        << *r1ptr.field3 << endl
//        << endl;
//
   cout << r1ptr->field1 << endl
        << r1ptr->field2 << endl
        << r1ptr->field3 << endl
        << endl;

}