Thread: Does C guarantee short circuit evaluation?

Originally Posted by AndrewHunter

I wouldn't rush, it isn't that interesting of a read.

Ha, not expecting it to be interesting, but you're pretty much guaranteed to learn tid-bits you didn't know about the language.

Originally Posted by grumpy

Guaranteed short-circuiting of logical expressions has always been a feature of C. It was true when Dennis Ritchie designed and implemented the first version of C, still true in the 1989 C standard, and remains true in the C99 standard.

Ah, good . Thanks!