Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!rutgers!iuvax!pur-ee!uiucdcs!snail!carroll From: carroll@snail.CS.UIUC.EDU Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Autoincrement question Message-ID: <10700009@snail> Date: Sun, 6-Dec-87 11:27:00 EST Article-I.D.: snail.10700009 Posted: Sun Dec 6 11:27:00 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 12-Dec-87 06:21:03 EST References: <1507@ogcvax.UUCP> Lines: 17 Nf-ID: #R:ogcvax.UUCP:1507:snail:10700009:000:612 Nf-From: snail.CS.UIUC.EDU!carroll Dec 6 10:27:00 1987 Quotes from K&R: A.16 (page 212) "The order in which side effects take place is also unspecified" 2.12 (page 50) "One unhappy situtation is typified by the statement a[i] = i++; The question is whether the subscript is the old valu eof i or the new. The compiler can do this in different ways, and generate different answers, depending on its interpretation" Alan M. Carroll amc@woodshop.cs.uiuc.edu carroll@s.cs.uiuc.edu ...{ihnp4,convex}!uiucdcs!woodshop!amc Quote of the day : "I've consulted all the sages I could find in Yellow Pages, but there aren't many of them" - AP & EW