Hello, I've been asked to port some old code to a new platform. We have
a vendor-supplied compiler that is supposed to be ansi compliant, but
it refuses to compile the following code:
$ cat test.c
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
static int a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k;
return k = a ? b++, c : d ? e++, f : g ? h++, i : j;
}
The error is 'ternary operation `?:` unterminated', however the GNU
compiler accepts it even in 'pedantic' mode. It's not a problem, as I
just rewrote the code, but I'm curious if this code (as i suspect)
looks acceptable to you language lawyers, if so I'll file a bug report
with the vendor.
Thanks guys. 5 2185 sl****************@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been asked to port some old code to a new platform. We have a vendor-supplied compiler that is supposed to be ansi compliant, but it refuses to compile the following code:
$ cat test.c int main(int argc, char **argv) { static int a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k;
return k = a ? b++, c : d ? e++, f : g ? h++, i : j; }
The code above is valid and should compile properly. I happen to think
that the last statement is very poorly written though, I wouldn't want
to see the rest of the code written by the guy who came up with this
gem. This is the type of code that leads to bugs and maintenance
nightmares, especially if you forget that the tertiary operator is
right-to-left associative.
Robert Gamble
Robert Gamble wrote: sl****************@hotmail.com wrote:
Hello, I've been asked to port some old code to a new platform. We have a vendor-supplied compiler that is supposed to be ansi compliant, but it refuses to compile the following code:
$ cat test.c int main(int argc, char **argv) { static int a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k;
return k = a ? b++, c : d ? e++, f : g ? h++, i : j; }
The code above is valid and should compile properly. I happen to think that the last statement is very poorly written though, I wouldn't want to see the rest of the code written by the guy who came up with this gem. This is the type of code that leads to bugs and maintenance nightmares, especially if you forget that the tertiary operator is right-to-left associative.
Yeah. What he said. In spades.
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More details at: <http://cfaj.freeshell.org/google/> sl****************@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been asked to port some old code to a new platform. We have a vendor-supplied compiler that is supposed to be ansi compliant, but it refuses to compile the following code:
$ cat test.c int main(int argc, char **argv) { static int a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k;
return k = a ? b++, c : d ? e++, f : g ? h++, i : j; }
The error is 'ternary operation `?:` unterminated', however the GNU compiler accepts it even in 'pedantic' mode. It's not a problem, as I just rewrote the code, but I'm curious if this code (as i suspect) looks acceptable to you language lawyers, if so I'll file a bug report with the vendor.
Thanks guys.
You should send this in as obfuscated code, anybody
writing that kind of code, should not be allowed near
a computer,and waste his employers money. sl****************@hotmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been asked to port some old code to a new platform. We have a vendor-supplied compiler that is supposed to be ansi compliant, but it refuses to compile the following code:
$ cat test.c int main(int argc, char **argv) { static int a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k;
return k = a ? b++, c : d ? e++, f : g ? h++, i : j; }
The error is 'ternary operation `?:` unterminated', however the GNU compiler accepts it even in 'pedantic' mode. It's not a problem, as I just rewrote the code, but I'm curious if this code (as i suspect) looks acceptable to you language lawyers, if so I'll file a bug report with the vendor.
I would hazzard a guess that the compiler writer is not aware that the
middle
term of the conditional operator is any other expression...
conditional-expression:
logical-OR-expression
logical-OR-expression ? expression : conditional-expression
In other words...
a ? b, c : d
....is equivalent to...
a ? (b, c) : d
--
Peter
Robert Gamble wrote: tertiary operator
There are unary, binary, and ternary operators,
according to the number of operands of the operator;
rather than primary, secondary, and tertiary.
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