Re: code understanding help

[Mathieu Segaud <segaud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Terry Tree <terry.tree@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm trying to go through a book on programming in C and I'm having
> problem understanding the second example in the book.
>
> $cat 2.c 
>
> #define PRINTX printf("%d\n", x);
>
> int
> main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
>     int x = 2, y, z;
>
>     x *= 3 + 2; PRINTX;

here the output is 10, right ?

>     x *= y = z = 4; PRINTX; // the output makes no sense

so here it becomes 40.

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Mathieu Segaud