From:	Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Is this the normal behavior?
Followup-To:	comp.lang.c
Date:	Sat, 21 Jun 1997 16:16:07 -0700
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Edevaldo wrote:

> It is more a C question than a DJGPP related one, but ...
>         When I execute this program:

This should have been posted to comp.lang.c.  Followups directed there.

> #include <stdio.h>
> 
> int main( void)
> {
>         int i;
> 
>         for( i=0; i<4; printf( "%i %i\n", i, i++) );
> 
>         return 0;
> };
	...
>         Is this the normal behavior?
>         In C the later arguments are evaluated first? The stack?

This is ANSI standard C.  In evaluating expressions, including function
call arguments, you have no assurance of which order they will be
evaluated in.  Thus using subexpressions that have side effects on other
subexpressions in the same expression, you will have undefined behavior.

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