Assignment Ops and Side Effects

[Tim Pierce]

In article <1991Apr3.173046.2367 at mccc.edu>, pjh at mccc.edu (Peter J. Holsberg) writes:
> How does the standard describe the situation where, for example,
> 	x++ *= y;
> is treated as if it were
> 	x++ = x * y;
> and not
> 	x++ = x++ * y;

x++ is not an lvalue in any compiler that I know of.

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