Re: printf output

On 2009-02-17, Keep Asking <ask8y@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
What is output of following printf should be?

i=0;
printf("i=%d i++=%d i++=%d", i, i++, i++)?

Undefined behavior as i is modified multiple times between sequence points.
The C standard doesn't specify a well defined behavior for this.

You can't have any expectations.

I was surprised when I was the print out.

What print out did you expect?


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