Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (61 mails)

[Anders Johansson <andjoh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 10 September 2005 17:47, Jerry Feldman wrote:
> Just to add to Anders comments.
> According to the ANSI 89 standard, this is an unspecified operation.
> The issue here is when the postincrement operator is applied to s.
> C pushes variables from the last to the first because it may have an
> unknown number of parameters.

This is a completely unwarranted assumption. This may be the way any one 
compiler works (and it does make sense), but according to 6.5.2.2 of the 1999 
standard

"The order of evaluation of the function designator, the actual arguments, and 
subexpressions within the actual arguments is unspecified, but there is a 
sequence point before the actual call"

So while I'm sure you're right about any one compiler, it is very wrong to say 
that C does it, and suicidal to rely on it