evaluation order of expressions in gcc

laura_rand@women-at-work.org laura_rand@women-at-work.org
Tue Mar 30 08:24:00 GMT 2004


> laura_rand@women-at-work.org writes:
> 
> > hi, all
> > 
> > i could not find an answer to this question on the net so i'm posting it
> > here.
> > 
> > as far as i know, the Ansi C standard does not specify the order of
> > evaluation of expression arguments. so if i wrote:
> > 
> > x = f() + g()
> > 
> > it would be up to the compiler whether f() or g() would be called
> > first.
> [snip]
> 
> There is no order you can depend on. It can vary by platform, and
>     according to optimization flags.

that was my question. which optimization flags does it depend on, and how? 
platform is intel x86.

laura

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