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SubjectRe: [BUG] Bad #define, nonportable C, missing {}
> On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 12:40:17PM +0000, vda wrote:
> If you wanna do this type of cleanup, you can take it one step forward;
> remember that the order of evaluation of foo and bar doesn't have to be
> {foo => bar} so it can be {bar => foo} I hope gcc's behaviour doesn't
> change under our feet.
>
> a = foo (i) + bar (j);
>
> .. sprinkle some pointer arithmetic over there for fun ;)

AFAIK here the order *IS* defined. + operator is evaluated left to right
unless operands are known not to have side-efects (in which case it doesn't
matter). Functions are considered not having side-efects iff they are defined
with constant atribute.

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