GCC beaten by ICC in stupid trig test!

Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk
Wed Mar 24 21:07:00 GMT 2004


On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Paul Koning wrote:

> I don't have a C standard, but my copy of Harbison & Steele says what
> I expected about parentheses: "Parentheses do not necessarily force a
> particular evaluation order".  

Evaluation order (sequence points) has nothing to do with associativity.  
The C syntax specifies that a+b+c means exactly (a+b)+c - but in both 
cases, a, b and c can be evaluated in any order.

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk



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