GCC Bug in 3.3.2 and 3.3.3 ?

["Dave Trollope, Diane Barrowman" <daveanddiane at kringlecottage dot com>]

Hi

I seem to have run across some strange behaviour with using a function 
call in the conditional of "? :".

See the following simple code:

#include <stdio.h>

char *glob[3] = { "a", "b", "c" };

char *x_ptr(int a)
{
       return glob[a];
}

int main()
{
#ifdef BUG
   char *xx;

   printf("DBG %s\n",xx = x_ptr(2) ? xx : "JUNK");
#else
   char *xx = x_ptr(2);

   printf("DBG %s\n",xx ? xx : "JUNK");
#endif
}

If you compile with the BUG define, xx is assigned a bad pointer and 
either core dumps or prints garbage. If you compile without BUG defined, 
everything is fine.

Is this a known problem?

Can someone test this on 3.4.x?

I have reproduced this on cygwin with gcc3.3.3 and Mandrake Linux 10 
using gcc3.3.2 but don't have 3.4.x to hand.

Cheers
Dave

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