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From: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: register variable???
Message-ID: <1136@virtech.UUCP>
Date: 9 Sep 89 00:16:09 GMT
References: <30585@srcsip.UUCP>
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc
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In article <30585@srcsip.UUCP>, sklee@pompeii.SRC.Honeywell.COM (Sungkee Lee) writes:
>   printf("list = %d %d %d %d %d\n",
> 	 list[0], list[1], list[2], list[3], list[4]);
>   i = 0;
>   while (i < 4)  list[i] = list[++i];
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is an undefined operation due to the use of i on both sides with 
an auto increment on the right.  There is no definition of the value of
i on the left and that value may change due to the declaration of i
as a register type or a non-register.  

> Is this the way register variable is designed?
> Or, is this compiler error? I ran this program on Sun 3/60?

It is neither.  It is a problem with the code.