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Re: Evaluation Order in Function Declaration

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Shao Miller wrote:
> 
> Is the evaluation order guaranteed to be left-to-right for the
> declaration of 'baz' in the following code?  Or are the array size
> expressions unsequenced relative to one another, as in 'a + b'?  Or
> something else?
> 
>    #include <stdio.h>
> 
>    int foo(void) { puts("foo"); return 1; }
>    int bar(void) { puts("bar"); return 1; }
> 
>    int baz(int (* x)[foo()], int (* y)[bar()]) { return 0; }
> 
>    int main(void) { return baz(0, 0); }

Whether that program will output "foo" or "bar" first,
is unspecified.

n1570

6.5.2.2 Function calls

12 EXAMPLE In the function call
  (*pf[f1()]) (f2(), f3() + f4())
   the functions f1, f2, f3, and f4 may be called in any order.
   All side effects have to be completed before
   the function pointed to by pf[f1()] is called.

-- 
pete

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Evaluation Order in Function Declaration Shao Miller <sha0.miller@gmail.com> - 2012-02-28 00:22 -0500
  Re: Evaluation Order in Function Declaration Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-02-28 10:14 +0100
    Re: Evaluation Order in Function Declaration Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-02-28 09:31 +0000
      Re: Evaluation Order in Function Declaration Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr> - 2012-02-28 13:09 +0100
  Re: Evaluation Order in Function Declaration pete <pfiland@mindspring.com> - 2012-03-08 08:49 -0500

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