Evaluation order of assignment.

[James Brister]

In article <13036 at mimsy.UUCP> chris at mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes:
>In article <957 at orion.cf.uci.edu> schmidt at bonnie.ics.uci.edu (Douglas
>C. Schmidt) writes:
>>Is the following always guaranteed to produce the "intended" result:
>>
>>   return(head->next = head = (struct list *) malloc(sizeof(struct list)));
>
>Aside from the fact that there are two `*'s missing, and that malloc
>can return NULL, the answer is no.
>

I'm curious; Why not? (assuming the two '*' were there and that malloc never 
returned NULL.

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