Aztec C (was: more eBay stuff)

[Cameron Kaiser]

> > >> > N = 1;
> > >> > A[N++] = N++;
> > >>On the other hand, I'd fire anyone who wrote something like the above.
> 
> On Sat, 2 Jun 2007, dwight elvey wrote:
> > Hi
> > I have no idea what would actually be done but I'd expect A[2]=1.
> > N would be 3.
> > If this was what was intended, why would you fire them?
> 
> Because it is treacherous code.  If that WAS what was intended, it will
> work.  When you switch compilers, it will stop working, and waste a lot
> of time of a lot of people finding and isolating what went wrong.
> Meanwhile, the original author will be insisting that there is a bug in
> the new compiler.
> 
> Dave did a thorough job of explaining that for various implementation
> related reasons, there are multiple VALID results from that code.

And I came up with a completely different interpretation than Dwight, so ...

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