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volpe@bart.crd.ge.com (Christopher R. Volpe) writes:

> What does the order of evaluation of subexpressions have to
> do with statement sequencing?

The two issues are closely related when
the implementation must execute statements to evaluate the subexpressions.

> There is definitely room for argument here.

Agreed.  But that's why we have standards: to settle such arguments.
Unfortunately, the C Standard falls short in questions involving order
of evaluation.  Other language standards (e.g. Ada, Algol, Fortran, PL/I)
answer these questions satisfactorily, but the C standard has a
unusual method of formalizing order-of-evaluation issues,
and in practice this method hasn't worked very well.