The standard doesn't specify the order of evaluation of arguments with this line: The order of evaluation of arguments is unspecified. What does Better code can be generated in the absence ...

The C++ standard (quoting from draft n3242) says the following about subobjects [intro.object]: Unless an object is a bit-field or a base class subobject of zero size, the address of that objec...

Lets say that we have two compilation units as follows: // a.cpp extern int value2; int value1 = value2 + 10; // b.cpp extern int value1; int value2 = value1 + 10; When I tried it on VC2010, it...

The equality operators have the semantic restrictions of relational operators on pointers: The == (equal to) and the != (not equal to) operators have the same semantic restrictions, conversions,...

Often one makes assumptions about a particular platform one is coding on, for example that signed integers use two's complement storage, or that (0xFFFFFFFF == -1), or things of that nature. Does ...

From the man page on my system: void *memmove(void *dst, const void *src, size_t len); DESCRIPTION The memmove() function copies len bytes from string src to string dst. The two strings ma...

I used to think that in C99, even if the side-effects of functions f and g interfered, and although the expression f() + g() does not contain a sequence point, f and g would contain some, so the be...

I have written a program that prints a table. I have not included the return syntax in the main function, but still whenever I type echo $? it displays 12. My source code : #include <stdio.h&g...