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Q:Here's a slick expression:
a ^= b ^= a ^= b
It swaps a and b without using a temporary.
A: Not portably, it doesn't. It attempts to modify the variable a twice between sequence points, so its behavior is undefined.
For example, it has been reported that when given the code
int a = 123, b = 7654;
a ^= b ^= a ^= b;
the SCO Optimizing C compiler (icc) sets b to 123 and a to 0.
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