"sequence point" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: sequence points [plural]
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  1. (programming) Any point during a computer program's execution at which it is guaranteed that all side effects of previous evaluations will have been performed, and no side effects from subsequent evaluations have yet been performed.

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