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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: initialization
Message-ID: <373@taumet.com>
Date: 2 Aug 90 16:08:22 GMT
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shirono@ssd.csd.harris.com (Roberto Shironoshita) writes:

|> >	int i = a, j = i + 1 ;
|Would the comma (,) separating the two variables (i and j) be considered a
|sequence point then?  Or do we have no guarantees as to the value j is
|initialized to?

A sequence point occurs after an initialization.  A comma as part of
a comma-expression marks a sequence point, but the comma here is not
such a comma.  So this comma could be considered a sequence point in
that it marks the end of the initialization expression.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com