nonportable code or incorrect compilers?

[Chris Torek]

In article <376 at accelerator.eng.ohio-state.edu> rob at kaa.eng.ohio-state.edu
(Rob Carriere) writes:
[re int a; ... a *= 1.05;]
>... the conversion rule says that a is to be converted to double; this
>seems to contradict the idea that a is to be computed *once*.

Right idea, wrong expansion: a's *address* (if it has one) is to be
computed once.  (a itself is indeed computed only once: if a is 800 it
is computed/evaluated as 800.  That value, now in a temporary
somewhere, is converted to double, multipled, and stored back in a's
address.)
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