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From: peter@sugar.UUCP (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Weird C code as test for employment
Message-ID: <480@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 13-Aug-87 09:58:18 EDT
Article-I.D.: sugar.480
Posted: Thu Aug 13 09:58:18 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 16-Aug-87 12:03:14 EDT
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In article <6253@brl-smoke.ARPA>, gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) writes:
> In article <183@xyzzy.UUCP> throopw@xyzzy.UUCP (Wayne A. Throop) writes:
> >I don't get it.  What lvalue rules are violated by the above?
> 
> expanding the expression *--*++cpp at one point one is trying to
> evaluate --(cp+2) (or something like that), and it was not (and still

*--*++cpp should be evaluated as:

	Increment cpp.
	Decrement *cpp.
	Value is **cpp.
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