Increment Operator Paradox

Question

The output of this program comes out to be 0,

Why not 1?

Because:

1.  a=0;will be assigned  then a++;
2. So now 0 will be 1; a=1; 

This freaks me out !!

#include <stdio.h>

int main()
{
    int a=0;
    a=a++;
    printf("%d",a);

    return 0;
}

 

Output:

0                                                                                                                                              

...Program finished with exit code 0 

 

Answer 1

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/27621242/difference-between-b-b-and-b

Comments

Then,

assign value :  a=a++;  ===>  a=0

then increment   a++    a=1;

 Again the same!

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I updated my answer

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So, this is it : Thank you

b++ is the same as:

int tmp = b;
b = b + 1;
b = tmp;