Re: Bug found in v4 of Acorn C compiler

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From: Edward Nevill
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 09:39

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In article <1992Oct1.033932.22482@cs.aukuni.ac.nz> epoo1@cs.aukuni.ac.nz (Edouard Poor) writes:

>    value = ( ( ( ( WORD ) fgetByte() ) << 8 ) | fgetByte() );

The order of evaluation is not guaranteed in ANSI C. This is a bug in your
program, not the compiler.

Edward (enevill@acorn.co.uk)

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From: enevill@acorn.co.uk (Edward Nevill)
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Subject: Re: Bug found in v4 of Acorn C compiler
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Date: 1 Oct 92 09:39:55 GMT
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