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From: ix426@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU (tom stockfish)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: comma operator
Message-ID: <3586@sdcc6.ucsd.EDU>
Date: 20 Jan 88 04:38:07 GMT
References: <3819@sigi.Colorado.EDU> <8599@ism780c.UUCP> <1866@bsu-cs.UUCP> <4006@june.cs.washington.edu>
Reply-To: ix426@sdcc6.ucsd.edu.UUCP (tom stockfish)
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In article <4006@june.cs.washington.edu> pardo@uw-june.UUCP (David Keppel) writes:
XX[ Don't use comma op because it may not be very well tested ]
XX[ Go ahead and use it -- it will work ]
X....  Simply using the comma opeator, however, to group related
Xcode may result in slower code.

The comma operator is no more stringent a sequence point than semicolon is.
So how could this mean slower code?
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||  Tom Stockfisch, UCSD Chemistry   tps@chem.ucsd.edu