Ah, wait.. Alain D D Williams wrote in <20221229215700.gd16...@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 | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
