Why does Visual C++ 2019 allow left operand (lvalue) casting of the assignment operator?

Working on a project that must run in Visual C++ and GCC

Before understanding that lvalue casting of the assignment operator in C is not allowed, I was writing code like this in VC++:

    typedef uint64_t QWORD;
    QWORD A = 0xdeadbeef, T = 0;

    (char)A = T;

Notice the (char)A = T disassembles to:

    000000013F7F3D8E  movzx       eax,byte ptr [T]  
    000000013F7F3D95  mov         byte ptr [A],al  

and everything was working fine (it seemed). Next, I ran this code using GCC on linux and it reported this error:

"error: lvalue required as left operand of assignment"

After searching many Stack Overflow articles, I found a solution that works in VC++ and GCC:

    *(char*)&A= T;

and also correctly disassembles to

    000000013F7F3D9B  movzx       eax,byte ptr [T]  
    000000013F7F3DA2  mov         byte ptr [A],al

But, why did VC++ permit me to cast the lvalue?