http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=60809
--- Comment #5 from jimis <jimis at gmx dot net> --- Andreas: On a second thought, this paragraph only talks about the order *within* the initialisation list. But no matter of that order, the initialisation list is always evaluated to: { .ai_family = AF_UNSPEC, .ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM, AI_PASSIVE }; The outer assignment to query2, should never set ai_flags, no matter what the side-effects of the inner assignments are. Am I thinking right?