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From: twpierce@amherst.bitnet (Tim Pierce)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assignment Ops and Side Effects
Message-ID: <12645.27fbbf2b@amherst.bitnet>
Date: 5 Apr 91 00:04:59 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.173046.2367@mccc.edu>
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In article <1991Apr3.173046.2367@mccc.edu>, pjh@mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
> How does the standard describe the situation where, for example,
> 	x++ *= y;
> is treated as if it were
> 	x++ = x * y;
> and not
> 	x++ = x++ * y;

x++ is not an lvalue in any compiler that I know of.

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