Re: Arithmetic expression: evaluation order bug

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Ah, wait..

Alain D D Williams wrote in
 <20221229215700.GD16276@phcomp.co.uk>:
 ...
 |Anyway: back to what the shell should be doing. You cannot put a ';' \
 |into (( ))
 |as a sequence point, but the manual does say:
 |
 |"Sub-expressions in parentheses are evaluated first and may override the
 |precedence rules above"
 |
 |So use sub-expressions to 'evaluate first' so you should prolly rewrite:
 |
 |(( i += j += i += i ))
 |
 |as:
 |
 |(( i += (j += (i += i)) ))

I had tried that with clang (and now with gcc -Wall).

--steffen
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