Lint question

[Charles Hannum]

In article <32699 at brunix.UUCP>, gvr at cs.brown.edu (George V. Reilly) says:
>
>      if (((dx = table[n].x - x), ((dx *= dx) < min))  &&
            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
The C compiler could calculate these expressions in any way it damned well
feels like it.  This is not defined in the ANSI C standard, mainly because
it would screw up optimizing compilers to have limits on the order of
evaluation when not necessary.


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