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Top Forums Programming A trivial XOR doubt in a program Post 302247330 by jim mcnamara on Wednesday 15th of October 2008 12:05:00 PM
Old 10-15-2008
The short answer - it is an undefined operation. Means that the C standard regards this as garbage, and your compiler was polite enough to produce spaces.
The reason: there are no sequence points in the line between important steps.

A ; character creates a sequence point. So the first version works. This means the compiler can do any of those calculations in any order...

By the way, that 'swap' algorithm in general is a bad idea; it has unsafe properties. You should use a temp variable. It may look cool to you, but that is about it.
 

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nan(3M) 																   nan(3M)

NAME
nan(), nanf(), nanl(), nanw(), nanq() - string to NaN conversion functions SYNOPSIS
HP Integrity Server Only DESCRIPTION
The function creates a quiet NaN from the specified string. If tagp does not point to an n-char-sequence or an empty string, the call is equivalent to The ISO/IEC C99 standard specifies n-char-sequence syntax, but the interpretation and extension of the syntax is implementation defined. The n-char-sequence argument is ignored on HP-UX systems. Integrity Server Only is a version of it returns a result. is a version of it returns a result. is an version of it returns an result. is equivalent to on HP-UX systems. USAGE
To use these functions, compile either with the default option or with the and options. To use compile with the option. Make sure your program includes and link in the math library by specifying on the compiler or linker command line. For more information, see the at: RETURN VALUE
The function returns a quiet NaN. These functions raise no exceptions. ERRORS
No errors are defined. SEE ALSO
copysign(3M), isnan(3M), nextafter(3M), math(5). STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
: ISO/IEC C99 (including Annex F, "IEC 60559 floating-point arithmetic") nan(3M)
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