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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Comma Operator
Keywords: order of evaluation, comma operator, function call
Message-ID: <15467@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 14 Jan 89 14:04:16 GMT
References: <922@quintus.UUCP>
Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
Lines: 14

In article <922@quintus.UUCP> nair@quintus writes:
>What should this print?
>
>	int x, y;
>	printf("%d %d\n", (x = 1, y = 2), x, y);

(presumably there is one `%d' missing here.)

Nothing certain.  The invocation contains two commas and *one* comma
operator.  The order of evaluation of the one comma operator is guaranteed,
but the order of the whole mess is not.
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