Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mcnc!spl
From: spl@mcnc.org (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator
Message-ID: <5023@alvin.mcnc.org>
Date: 5 Aug 89 14:46:28 GMT
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In article <5418@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Herewith the only use for the comma operator outside a macro that I can
>think of:
>
>	for(init1, init2; test; incr1, incr2)...

Can anyone tell me whether order of evaluation is guaranteed in this context?
I seem to remember either of running afoul of some order of evaluation bogon or reading somewhere that order of evaluation was not guaranteed... or maybe I'm
thinking of function calls (???).

Email replies will suffice unless someone has something earth-shattering to
add.

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