printf() problem

[Karl Heuer]

In article <89Apr26.092233edt.18850 at me.utoronto.ca> zougas at hammer.me.UUCP (Athanasios(Tom) Zougas) writes:
>In article <11657 at hodge.UUCP> jdm at hodge.UUCP (jdm) writes:
>>        printf("%x %x %x %x\n", getc(fp), getc(fp), getc(fp), getc(fp));
>>[was found to evaluate the rightmost getc() first.]
>
>It would happen in any C.

No.  Not all hardware has a downward-growing stack, and even on those that do,
not all C compilers evaluate function arguments in the same order that they
are pushed.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl at haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint