Assignment Ops and Side Effects

[Brian Bliss]

> 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;

The result of an increment or decrement operation is not a legal
lhs of an expression.

bb

P.S. an interesting tidbit I just found out:


if you're on a machine where sizeof (int) == 4, then

char ch;
sizeof (ch += 1) == 4
sizeof (ch++) == 1

apparrently operands of ++ and -- do not undergo integral promotion