(main_buf = *main_buf_p) is not syntacticly like (i = *j) ?

[Shaul Karl]

I have two 11 lines C programs which are supposed to be syntacticly similar. 
Yet int_test.c get compiled while the other does not:

Script started on Mon Jul  2 14:51:10 2001
[14:51:10 tmp]$ more *_test.c
::::::::::::::
int_test.c
::::::::::::::

#include <setjmp.h>

int main()
{
    int     i;
    int     *j = &i;

    i = *j;
    return 0;
}
::::::::::::::
jmp_test.c
::::::::::::::

#include <setjmp.h>

int main()
{
    jmp_buf test_env;
    jmp_buf *test_env_p = &test_env;

    test_env = *test_env_p;
    return 0;
}
[14:51:25 tmp]$ cc -Wall -c int_test.c
[14:51:47 tmp]$ cc -Wall -c jmp_test.c
jmp_test.c: In function `main':
jmp_test.c:9: incompatible types in assignment
[14:51:56 tmp]$ exit
exit

Script done on Mon Jul  2 14:52:02 2001


What did I miss?
-- 

        Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Hillel used to say: If I am not for myself who will be for me?
Yet, if I am for myself only, what am I? And if not now, when?
                                          (Ethics Of The Fathers 1:14)




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