From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Subject: Re: [Q] expression evaluation order
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 11:35:13 +0000
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Chris Croughton wrote:
> 
> One of the most common uses of this is in testing array
> elements, as in:
> 
>   if (i >= 0 && i < 10 && a[i] != x)
>     ...

And the second most common is probably to examine pointers for NULL
values before dereferencing them, as in:

if ( ptr != NULL && ptr->value == x )
    ...

And this too would break if the compiler did not evaluate left-to-right.

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