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From: gunnar@hafro.UUCP (Gunnar Stefansson)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: expression sequencing bugs
Message-ID: <279@hafro.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 03:08:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: hafro.279
Posted: Fri Oct  3 03:08:30 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 7-Oct-86 23:19:50 EDT
References: <4197@brl-smoke.ARPA> <760@oakhill.UUCP>
Reply-To: gunnar@hafro.UUCP (Gunnar Stefansson)
Organization: Marine Research Institute, Reykjavik.
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Summary: HP-UX gives 6.

In article <4197@brl-smoke.ARPA> C90630JG%WUVMD.BITNET@wiscvm.ARPA writes:
>In article <760@oakhill.UUCP> tomc@oakhill.UUCP (Tom Cunningham) writes:
>>    /* a = b + b + b */
>>    a = ((b=1),b) + ((b=2),b) + ((b=3),b)
>>
>>I expected the result to be 6.  With the Microsoft C compiler and the
>>compiler on the Sun 3, the result is 9.  Apparently the parenthetical
>>assignments are all getting done before the comma and addition.  Any
>>thoughts on this?
>>
>Tom, I agree, the result should be 6, as defined by K&R, but I have tried
>it on ......................
>I would like everyone to test it on as many machines as prossible, to
>see if we can find as least ONE other besides Small-C, that works.

Just for the record, our HP 9000, Model 550 running HP-UX returns
the value 6. Surely anything else isn't just strange, bizarre,..., but
just plain a compiler bug.

Gunnar