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From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: C compiler implements wrong semantics
Message-ID: <3014@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 10:05:32 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 10:05:32 1986
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PCC is neither `right' nor `wrong'; the behaviour of that kind of
code (`a++ + a') is specifically left undefined.  (The ANSI draft
has the notion of `sequence points' after which all side effects
should have taken place.  An addition within a single expression
is not a sequence point.)
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