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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: function call argument evaluation and global variables
Message-ID: <10800@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 23 Aug 89 04:46:33 GMT
References: <21448@paris.ics.uci.edu>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <21448@paris.ics.uci.edu> schmidt@glacier.ics.uci.edu (Doug Schmidt) writes:
>  foo (number, bar ());
>I'm just interested to know whether the standard defines the behavior here,

The order of evaluation of the arguments to a function is unspecified, and
a sequence point occurs before the actual function call.  In your example,
either outcome is permitted.