Re: C and side-effects

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Wed May 03 2000 - 16:42:57 EST


On Wed, 3 May 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:

> while ((mm->swap_cnt << 2 * (i + 1) < max_cnt) && i++ < 10)
> /* nothing */;
>
> I'm not that good at C, mas aren't expressions with side-effects
> ill-defined? How can we be sure (short of tracking the gcc
> mailing lists) that i will be incremented after the left part of
> the test?

Because it is defined in the C standard?

Rik

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