Andy Lomax <abuse@[127.0.0.1]> wrote [quoting the C standard]: >
>>If an attempt is made to modify
>>the result of an assignment operator or to access it after the next sequence point, the
>>behavior is undefined.
>
> What does this actually mean? Can anyone give me a code example that
> leads to undefined behaviour?
struct { int a[2]; } s, t;
int *p;
(s = t).a[0] = 3; // attempting to modify the result of an assignment op.
p = (s = t).a;
p[0]; // attempting to access the result after the next s.p.
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