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From: browns@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com (Stan Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: difference between c++; and ++c;
Message-ID: <4238.2805a63a@iccgcc.decnet.ab.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 17:21:14 GMT
References: <1991Apr08.161444.10025@cs.ruu.nl> <1817@bbxsda.UUCP> <1991Apr9.125207.22511@bwdls61.bnr.ca> <4496@gmdzi.gmd.de>
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In article <4496@gmdzi.gmd.de>, wittig@gmdzi.gmd.de (Georg Wittig) writes:
> So, is
> 
> 	``c++''		always equivalent to	``(++c - 1)''

Not necessarily.  You'd have to take overflow into account, and it
might depend on whether c is signed or unsigned.

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