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Re: Arithmetic expression: evaluation order bug


From: Steffen Nurpmeso
Subject: Re: Arithmetic expression: evaluation order bug
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2022 22:30:09 +0100
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Alain D D Williams wrote in
 <20221229204511.GC16276@phcomp.co.uk>:
 ...
 |No. i += j += i += i does not contain a sequence point so there is \
 |no guarantee
 |that anything is completed (eg storing a value in variable i) before \
 |another
 |part (getting a value from variable i) is evaluated.

But then shell "operators and  their precedence, associativity,
and values are the same as in the C language".  There are no
sequence points.  += is right associative, and then unwound.  (For
C, they do it all right, only clang warns on sequencing when
tested.  But yes, i do "hate" ISO/IEC JTC1/SC22/WG14, N925, "A
formal model of sequence points and related issues", Clive
Feather, from Y2K (my version), and if only for such cases like
the above.  Or the x=++x shown in the committee document (for
exactly that reason i presume: an "easy" formal formula to make it
work, even if human logic gives you the green light).)

--steffen
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