Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Is something wrong with the compiler ?
Message-ID: <1990Sep26.175948.8232@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <884@gtenmc.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 90 17:59:48 GMT

In article <884@gtenmc.UUCP> csp@gtenmc.UUCP (Charudutta S Palkar) writes:
>   ... I wrote the following code , and the results I got were absurd.
>
>      printf(" Maxint : %d\na = %d\n", ( int )(( unsigned ) ~0 >> 1 ) , 
>	      a = ( int )(( unsigned ) ( a = ~0 ) >> 1 ));

Sure you know what the results should be?  The second expression is
assigning to `a' twice, which has unpredictable effects.  However, this
doesn't explain what you're seeing.  It does look to me like a compiler
bug.
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