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Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 1997 18:47:27 -0300
To:	Charles Krug <charles AT pentek DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From:	Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject:	Re: [Q] expression evaluation order

At 09:10 07/08/97 +0100, Charles Krug wrote:
>No.

Wrong!

>
>I think that ANSI tries to demand left-to-right evalutaion of &&.  But
>not all compilers do this correctly.  To guarantee left-to-right
>evaluation, you need:

ANSI does not _try_, it demands!, if some compiler does not conform is
faulty (not 'buggy', which you could live with).

In fact, this is a behaviour constructed in the design of the language:

K&r 2nd ed. pg. 41 last par.: "... Expressions connected by && or || are
evaluated left to  right, and evaluation stops as soon as the truth or
falsehood of the result is known. Most C programs rely on these properties."

This is basic in C!

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