Question for ISO C standards gurus

[Dale Johannesen]

On Mar 25, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Paul Jarc wrote:

> law@redhat.com wrote:
>>     if (!(names = ecgetlist(state, *state->pc++, 2, &htok))) {
> ...
>> Of particular interest is whether or not the increment occurs before
>> the call or after the call.
>
> n869, 6.5.2.2p10:
> # The order of evaluation of the function designator, the actual
> # arguments, and subexpressions within the actual arguments is
> # unspecified, but there is a sequence point before the actual call.
>
> So the side effect would take place before the sequence point, and
> thus before the call.  n869 was the latest public draft of C99; I
> don't have a copy of the final standard.  It's possible that this
> might have changed.

The final standard says the same, as does C89.