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From: utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Lint question
Message-ID: <2488@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca>
Date: 14 Mar 90 23:33:02 GMT
References: <32699@brunix.UUCP> <90072.232413CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu>
Reply-To: utility@quiche.cs.mcgill.ca (Ronald BODKIN)
Organization: SOCS, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
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In article <90072.232413CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu> CMH117@psuvm.psu.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
>>      if (((dx = table[n].x - x), ((dx *= dx) < min))  &&

>The C compiler could calculate these expressions in any way it damned well
>feels like it.  This is not defined in the ANSI C standard...

	So, in general, the expression a, b does not define an order of
operations?  I had assumed that writing a, b allowed sequential
operations to be performed in computing expressions (great for macros).
	Ron