From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: printf bug ???
Date:	Fri, 05 Jun 1998 18:44:56 -0700
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Blaine Hodge wrote:

> > >     printf("%d %d %d", i, i++, i++);
	...
> Then its VC at fault (gee, imagine that), sounds like its evaluating
> it
> using the Pascal calling method, left to right, and not C/C++, right
> to
> left.

No, neither compiler is wrong.  The result of the above code is
undefined.  That means that it can do anything from printing zeroes
(even though i started with 0) to computing pi, to crashing -- any of
those would be perfectly ANSI compliant implementations, since it's a
user error.

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