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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: A question on volatile accesses
Message-ID: <14330@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 4 Nov 90 08:27:16 GMT
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In article <2402@lupine.NCD.COM> rfg@NCD.COM (Ron Guilmette) writes:
>So is this a violation of the ANSI standard or what?

It's simply a violation of C.  You don't need to look in the standard
to know that *++ip means "increment the pointer then fetch what is now
pointed at".  The value of "++ip" is the only issue here and that has
been well defined ever since Dennis invented it.