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From: exspes@gdr.bath.ac.uk (P E Smee)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Assignment Ops and Side Effects
Message-ID: <1991Apr5.163958.8483@gdr.bath.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Apr 91 16:39:58 GMT
References: <1991Apr3.173046.2367@mccc.edu>
Reply-To: P.Smee@bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee)
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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;

The quick answer is that x++ is (explicitly) not an lvalue, and so
cannot appear on the left-hand side of an assignment operator.

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