The issue is really a somewhat ambiguous statement. Out of curiosity, I was able to compile this successfully on Compaq's DEC C. The ambiguity is resolved by context. But, if the variable, hosed was previously defined, then the code generated would be the result of the muitiplication of the variables hosed and mystery (with the result flushed), and an optimizing compiler would simply not generate its code :-).
Interestingly, there are some similar issues in some of the code I am working on, which is built on 4 or 5 different platforms. Jerry Feldman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Associate Director Boston Linux and Unix user group http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
