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From: CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lint question
Message-ID: <90074.004949CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 15 Mar 90 05:49:49 GMT
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In article <90072.232413CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>, Charles Hannum
<CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> says:
>
>In article <32699@brunix.UUCP>, gvr@cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly) says:
>>
>>      if (((dx = table[n].x - x), ((dx *= dx) < min))  &&
>            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>The C compiler could calculate these expressions in any way it damned well
>feels like it.  This is not defined in the ANSI C standard, mainly because
>it would screw up optimizing compilers to have limits on the order of
>evaluation when not necessary.

Okay.  It looks like I was wrong about this.

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