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From: "Ludovic Brenta" <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: Translating an embedded C algorithm
Date: 16 Jan 2007 08:12:09 -0800
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Jean-Pierre Rosen a =E9crit :
>> A question: I see all the time things like "if (.. < ..)" in C - are the
>> parentheses required there ?
> Yes, they are - because C has no "then" keyword. There must be something
> to tell the compiler where the expression ends...

Not to mention that the parentheses may contain several expressions
separated by the comma operator, some or all of which may have side
effects, and only the last of which actually controls the if
statement... for example:

if (a =3D 1, b =3D a, c =3D --a, (a =3D --b) =3D=3D c) {
   ...
}

Ah, the joy of obfuscated programming :) :) :)

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Ludovic Brenta.