Re: Question about ECPGset_noind_null() and ECPGis_noind_null()

Tom Lane írta:
> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>   
>> Boszormenyi Zoltan wrote:
>>     
>>> Is it *really* a bug? I recalled a comment from my C teacher
>>> in '92 or '93 about this exact issue, that the prefix/postfix
>>> increment/decrement operators are executed in the
>>> statement in an implementation-defined order, 
>>>       
>
>   
>> Not if they come after a short-circuit operator such as && - after all, 
>> that's what short-circuit evaluation implies. If the left hand operand 
>> of && is false the right hand should not be evaluated at all.
>>     
>
> Yes.  && is a sequence point and the compiler is not allowed to move
> side-effects across a sequence point.  What your C teacher was warning
> you against was things like
>     a[i] = i++;
> '=' is not a sequence point so it's undefined which array index
> will be stored into.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>   

Thanks to both of you, this was really informative.
Actually my C teacher didn't mention such optimization barriers.
It seems I need to look up the raw C language specs...

Best regards,
Zoltán Böszörményi

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