Suspected bug, triggering code included

[Andreas Schwab]

Nils M Holm <nmh@t3x.org> writes:

> ---------- description ----------
> An member of an array A is assigned the value of a function P.
> As a side effect, the function P realloc()s the array A.
>
> When including the array A in a multiple assignment, the
> old address of A is used instead of the address of the newly
> allocated memory.

This is not a bug.  The evaluation order of the operands is unspecified.

> When splitting the multiple assignment in two (see #ifdef WORK_AROUND),
> everything works fine.

It's not a workaround, it's the only correct solution.

Andreas.

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