Tom Lane wrote: >> That would answer the big question here, but where does it say that? > > Also, if you really insist on an authoritative statement, try this text > (from Annex D of the C99 draft standard, "Formal model of sequence > points"):
Thank you, that would answer the question. There is no "also" about it; it's exactly what I was asking all along. The conclusive answer for us would be in the C89 standard of course, where (at least in the draft that Neil quoted) I haven't been able to find anything like this. :-( Jeroen ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly