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From: kruger@16bits.dec.com (Bear with me)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: RE: The order of string copying
Message-ID: <8803251940.AA10122@decwrl.dec.com>
Date: 25 Mar 88 22:35:00 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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I can't believe people are actually arguing over what the manual of a UNIX
compiler guarantees. If you want a given order guaranteed, formalize it in the
standard quickly, before it's too late. I doubt you can get it in, of course.

If you don't get it in, then the standard says the order is implementation
defined, right? So you have NO guarantee, as all UNIX compilers are going to
move towards the standard and you could conceivably find your functions breakingif you assume an order -- whether the current manual says so or not.

So for the few cases where you are order-dependent, roll yer own.

dov