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From: bhoughto@pima.intel.com (Blair P. Houghton)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Function Argument Evaluation
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Date: 23 Mar 91 04:57:29 GMT
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In article <1991Mar23.014442.24307@cs.ucla.edu> jon@maui.cs.ucla.edu (Jonathan Gingerich) writes:
>I'm confused.  3 answers have been given to the question.  If I understand
>Doug's last answer, p may be either &x or &y after the statement, but I
>don't see how this affects the value of (p=&x) and (p=&y) which would 
>remain &x and &y (given the correct type of p).

I was confused, too, until I saw the words "and ... subexpressions"
blinking out at me from that sentence everyone's posted.

It blows away any semblance of stability for the value of p.

				--Blair
				  "Mine's been gone since
				   I learned Fortran, and that
				   was half a life ago..."