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   Francis Glassborow to rado   
   Re: postfix operator++   
   22 May 12 17:23:47   
   
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   From: francis.glassborow@btinternet.com   
      
   On 22/05/2012 20:10, rado wrote:   
   >> You have invoked undefined behaviour because your assignment   
   >> statement modifies x twice without an intervening sequence   
   >> point. This is always a no no in C and C++ for built-in types. The   
   >> same rule applies to struct/class types except that in most   
   >> instances where it looks as this has been done (2 modifications to   
   >> same memory between sequence points) there are some hidden sequence   
   >> points because overloaded operators are actually function calls.   
   >   
   > I wonder why decent compilers don't issue a warning in such cases.  Or   
   > maybe they do. Does anybody know?   
   >     -- Radoslav Getov   
      
   Well GNU GCC 4.7 with -Wall issues a warning   
      
      
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