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Comment by jfoutz | Hacker News Reader

it's a little weirder though. int main(int argc, char argv) { int a = 0; printf("%i %i %i\n", a, a++, a++); }

will give "0 0 1" (gcc 4.2.1), the increment "shouldn't" happen until after the ; if you're going with post statement. I think your rule would expect "0 0 0" with a being 2 after the printf.

BUT! you get a warning, so that's nice.

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The issue here is that the order of function argument evaluation is undefined. If the commas weren't inside of a function call, they would result in sequence points. So, this would be well defined:

   int a = 0, b, c;
   b = a++, c = a++;

But, there is no defined order in which to evaluate function arguments.

The example given in the article shows all the code, but your example involves a function so the code in question is hidden. The behaviour partially depends on how the function is written.

"0 0 1" is what I would expect from your code, and identifier a should end up as 2.

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