scope issue

[patrick]

sometime in the late 1900s Dima replied to Richard:

> Richard Harvey Chapman wrote:
> 
> > Is there a correct output for the following?
> 
> No, there isn't.


i can understand your answer for the second printf() but not
for the first one.

i think the first one should always give 9 (in this case).

what am i missing?


> > int main ( void )
> > {
> >   int x=9;
> >
> >   printf ("%d\n", (x + x++) - --x);
> >   printf ("%d %d\n", ++x, x++);
> > }
> >
> > I believe that it should be:
> > 9
> > 10 10
> >
> > but different compilers have given different answers.
> >
> > R.
> 
> Dima




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