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From: wreck@fmsrl7.UUCP (Ron Carter)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: if this legal code?
Summary: Yes.
Message-ID: <44405@fmsrl7.UUCP>
Date: 27 Jun 91 13:37:52 GMT
References: <1991Jun25.235904.23103@netcom.COM>
Reply-To: wreck@fmsrl7.UUCP (Ron Carter)
Organization: Ford Motor Company, Scientific Research Labs, Dearborn, MI
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In article <1991Jun25.235904.23103@netcom.COM> aed@netcom.COM (Andrew Davidson) writes:
>if (! ((tt = testEntry.code - testCode) || (tt = testEntry.leg -
>testLeg)))
>
>does the language guarentee that if testEntry.code -testCode is not
>equal to 0, that the second assignment (tt  = testEntry.leg - testLeg)
>will not be executed?

Yes.  Short-circuiting of logical operations is guaranteed by C.

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