Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!dptcdc!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!me!zougas
From: zougas@me.utoronto.ca ("Athanasios(Tom) Zougas")
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: printf() problem
Keywords: C printf
Message-ID: <89Apr27.174525edt.19087@me.utoronto.ca>
Date: 27 Apr 89 21:45:22 GMT
References: <11657@hodge.UUCP> <89Apr26.092233edt.18850@me.utoronto.ca> <703@uva.UUCP>
Reply-To: zougas@hammer.me.UUCP (Athanasios(Tom) Zougas)
Organization: University of Toronto Mechanical Engineering
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In article <703@uva.UUCP> dondorp@uva.UUCP (Erwin Dondorp (I84)) writes:
>In article <89Apr26.092233edt.18850@me.utoronto.ca> zougas@hammer.me.UUCP (Athanasios(Tom) Zougas) writes:
>>[stuff deletd]
>>[arguments of a function are evaluated in the reverse order]
>>It would happen in any C.
>
>NO.
>
>
>I have a compiler that really evaluates the arguments in the order that
>you specified, That thus makes the statement 'any C' to become untrue.
>

I should have said: "It could/might/.. happen in any C. Therefore,
don't rely on order of evaluation. As a matter of fact, Kernighan &
Ritchie state in _The C Programming Language_ , page 212: 'order of
evaluation of function arguments is not specified by the language'."

I apologize for my imprecision. Why do I feel like a scolded child :-?

Tom.

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