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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Efficiency Question
Message-ID: <15342@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 27 Feb 91 20:30:43 GMT
References: <1991Feb25.181434.6462@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> <1991Feb26.042023.2097@grebyn.com> <17112@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
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In article <17112@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> volpe@camelback.crd.ge.com (Christopher R Volpe) writes:
>Just wanted to point out that "x += 1" cannot be condensed to "x++", but
>rather to "++x".

In a general expression context that is true, but in the specific example
	x++;
either form would be equivalent.