Re: Evaluation order, assignment order

[David Jones <drj@...>]

On 22 Jun 2006, at 14:25, Klaus Ripke wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 22, 2006 at 10:07:51AM -0300, Roberto Ierusalimschy wrote:
> > The point is that you cannot evaluate two arguments "in parallel".
> In C99, you can.
>
> http://open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG14/www/docs/n1124.pdf
> says (in 6.5.2.2 and Annex C) that there is a "sequence point"
> only before a function call after all arguments have been evaluated.

Sequence points have little to do with evaluating things in  
parallel.  Last I heard asking whether function arguments can be  
evaluated in parallel got a "no" RR, but the committee went into fits  
deciding on the issue.

drj