Heroic failures (q = q++)

[Richard Pottorff]

In article <29378 at uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> jma at reef.cis.ufl.edu (John 'Vlad' Adams) writes:
In article <1991Jun25.151408.1024 at ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> vulcan at uiuc.edu (EvilTwin) writes:
>A co-worker and I tried the above on our respective machines.  He on an IBM
>70/386 using Borland C++, I on a MicroVAX II using DEC's C version 3.1.  He
>received a result of 6, I one of 5.
>ps - the initial value of q was 5.

#My platform, an Amiga, with SAS C 5.10a, also generates a 5.
#Long live DECs and Amigas.  :)
-- 
John  M.  Adams   --*****--   Professional Student      ///
							  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
I would be too, but it doesn't pay enough :-)


I tried this two ways on my Turbo Pascal Compiler at home.

int q=0;
printf("\nq=q++=%d", q=q++);

q=q++=0;

and:
 q=q++;

 printf("\nq=%d", q);

 q=1


I don't know what this proves.

Ramblin Rick