Problem with post-incrementation

[Simon Parsons]

In article <6530 at s3.ireq.hydro.qc.ca> godin at ireq.hydro.qc.ca (Andre Godin 8926) writes:
>
>	Every times I call this function, the value of 'str' 
>	is always tmp_0 and 'i' never gets incremented. If
>	we use the pre-increment operator, the function works 
>	properly. Why post-incrementing doesn't work?
>
>	(I'm using cc under SunOs 4.0.3.)
>
>char *
>fnc() /*
>----- */
>{
>static	int	i = 0;
>static	char	str[256];
>
>	sprintf(str, "tmp_%d", i = (i++) % 3600);
>
>	return (str);
>}

No suprises there the expression on the right-hand side of the assignment
is evaluated to zero, i is post-incremented to 1. Then the value of the
expression ( 0 ) is assigned to i. Hence i remains at zero for each call
of the function.

Simon


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