[sane-devel] ambiguous post-increment in canon-sane.c

Johannes Meixner jsmeix at suse.de
Mon Dec 11 12:55:52 CET 2006


Hello,

On Dec 8 15:34 Ulrich Deiters wrote (shortened):
> Interesting! The incriminated C code looked perfectly innocent
> to me (if the incrementing operation is carried out after all
> assignments, as it should, there is no ambiguity).

Perhaps "ambiguous" is not exactly the right word because
in a textbook about C I read that '++' and '--' are not allowed
on the left side of '=' (e.g. x++ = 1; is not allowed) and in
this case the compiler should complain regarding "lvalue".

Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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