*p++ = *p results?

[Stanley Friesen]

In article <312 at imagen.UUCP> kevin at imagen.UUCP (Kevin L. Malloy) writes:
>In the statement *p++ = *p; what will be the result?  Will p be equal
>to itself or will p be equal to the next value it is pointing to?
>In other words should p be incremented after it is evaluated or should
>p be incremented after the assignment operation is finished?-- 
>---
	The answer is - either. They are both "correct" since timing
of side-effects like assignment and post-increment is implementation
defined i "C". Do not ever write code like this!
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				Sarima (Stanley Friesen)

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