Re: comma operator
Ivan Novick wrote:
From the standard it would seem this program should print 3, but gcc
prints 1.
#include <iostream>
int main(int argc, char** argv)
{
int x;
x = 1, 2, 3;
The grouping of this is
(x = 1), 2, 3;
If you wanted to evaluate all expressions and only assign the last
one to 'x' you needed parentheses:
x = (1, 2, 3);
std::cout << x << std::endl;
return 0;
}
The standard 5.18 says "A Pair of expressions separated by a comma is
evaluated left-to-right and value of the left expression is
discarded."....."The type and value of the result are the type and
value of the right operand;"
To me, that implies 1 and 2 will be thrown out and the result will be
3. But gcc prints 1 and warns: "right-hand operand of comma has no
effect".
Can someone please show me how I am misunderstanding the standard?
Read the grammar rule for the comma operator. "Assignment-expression"
has higher precedence.
V
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