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Top Forums Programming A trivial XOR doubt in a program Post 302247279 by royalibrahim on Wednesday 15th of October 2008 10:09:49 AM
Old 10-15-2008
A trivial XOR doubt in a program
Hi,

I am trying to reverse a string using the following program utilizing the Exclusive OR bit operation:

Code:
int main() {
   char str[] = "Quraish";
   char *p = str, temp;
   char *q = str + strlen(str) - 1;
   while ( p != q ) {
      if (*p != *q) {
         *p ^= *q; *q ^= *p; *p ^= *q;
      }
      p++; q--;
   }
   printf("%s \n", str);
}

The above code works perfectly alright, but if I change the line
Code:
*p ^= *q; *q ^= *p; *p ^= *q;

to
Code:
*p ^= *q ^= *p ^= *q;

(I am trying to do swapping inline)
it prints an empty string. Could anyone tell me why this behaviour is?
 

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PAPS(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   PAPS(1)

NAME

       paps - UTF-8 to PostScript converter using Pango

SYNOPSIS

       paps [options] files...

DESCRIPTION

       paps reads a UTF-8 encoded file and generates a PostScript language rendering of the file. The rendering is done by creating outline curves
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OPTIONS

       These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with  two  dashes  (`-').   A  summary  of  options	is
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	      Landscape output. Default is portrait.

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