Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!newsfeed.hal-mli.net!feeder1.hal-mli.net!border3.nntp.dca.giganews.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.earthlink.com!news.earthlink.com.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 21:41:44 -0500 Message-ID: <4E6C1FEA.232D@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:41:46 -0400 From: pete Reply-To: pfiland@mindspring.com Organization: PF X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.04Gold (WinNT; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Unexpected output References: <8787e0b5-b4c3-463f-bd9a-6ffc30034950@x29g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 18 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 4.154.219.54 X-Trace: sv3-VUdhykHYXNMcCty3V/zKLDM4eJLe3Aiq/3x6H1ItpZa+VWEJKnNquSZkKIyKEfnyttCkR6wXyLx0qne!gjXWcopvZ2xA6tuwcVjyX1IFIOt0YACcGrVbpBh7cbqj2yMbD5EQpczZjW90/oTGV9znOnVF9vs4!sKJ2mI4+2w== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1472 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.c:10118 Mazen wrote: > > Thanks, Eric. So, how can one achieve the desired result and guarantee a defined behavior? #include int main(void) { int i = 0, j, k; j = k = 2; i = -j; printf("%d %d\n", j, i); return 0; } -- pete