From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Craig Burley <burley@gnu.org>
To: smurf@noris.de
Cc: burley@gnu.org
Subject: Re: /internet
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1998 09:33:00 -0000
Message-id: <199812161733.MAA14887@melange.gnu.org>
References: <19981216080851.A5351@noris.de>
X-SW-Source: 1998-12/msg00584.html

>> 	y = a * b * c * d;
>> 
>> the compiler could do the multiplications in any order, but for
>
>No it cannot. C specifies whether operations are left- or
>right-associative, meaning it's well-defined which is executed first.
>Think "-" vs. "=". ;-)

Read the pertinent standards, then re-think.  You're wrong.

        tq vm, (burley)