> On Oct 13, 2015, at 3:24 PM, Graham Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> In a piece of code I haven’t worked on in a while, I’m suddenly getting a new 
> warning which I’ve never seen before:
> 
> “Multiple unsequenced modifications to ‘ix’”
> 
> Code is:
> 
> 
> ix = ++ix % guess.count;
> 
> where ix is a NSUInteger.
> 
> Is this telling me that the order of the preincrement and the mod operation 
> is undefined? Surely a preincrement is defined to happen first, that’s why 
> it’s called a PREincrement? Or does the warning refer to something else? I’ve 
> used this form of expression for years without any issues, why is it suddenly 
> one?

Pre-increment is defined to return the value that would be stored in its 
operand.  The actual store to the operand is indeterminately sequenced with 
returning that value, however.

John.



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