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From: p554mve@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: ANOTHER SAS C BUG
Message-ID: <1916@mpirbn.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
Date: 2 Apr 91 15:13:10 GMT
References: <1991Mar31.035009.13183@csis.dit.csiro.au>
Reply-To: p554mve@mpirbn.UUCP (Michael van Elst)
Organization: Max-Planck-Institut fuer Radioastronomie, Bonn
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In article <1991Mar31.035009.13183@csis.dit.csiro.au> dave@csis.dit.csiro.au (David Campbell) writes:
>/*  Here is some source which demonstrates a bug in the SAS C
>    compiler */
>	*ptr = '\001' + *ptr++;
>
>/* Should print "iello" through the incrementing of str[0]


If you look at the K&R book you can find that this isn't a bug
but that C doesn't define the evaluation sequence of a binary
operator except for &&, ||, ?: and the comma operator.

Regards,
-- 
Michael van Elst
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