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Definition of Lvalue

By David Bolton, About.com

Definition: An lvalue is a way of describing the term on the left hand side of an assignment. It is usually an address or variable.

In this declaration and initialization of the int variable a, the lvalue is a.

int a = 9*7+c;

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