Sorry for the delay, I know this is an old thread, but I'm recovering
after being offline and I see nothing more in this same thread.

To recap, this patch was accepted:

> -             putchar(*name++);
> +             putchar(*name);
> +             ++name;

> -                     fwrite(buf, 1, c, *fp++);
> -             while (*fp);
> +                     fwrite(buf, 1, c, *fp);
> +             while (*++fp);

[...]

But putchar and fwrite cannot evaluate the arguments more than once.
So the patch is fine for putc (the part I don't quote here), but
is wrong (i.e., unneeded) for the two hunks above.

If a library implementation has double evaluation for putchar and
fwrite, it's the library that's broken; I think we don't special-case
for broken tools, at least not without making a comment.  Or do we
want to remove all ++ and -- because functions may be broken?

Sorry for the seemingly-harsh words, it's not my intention but I'm
not a native speaker.

thanks
/alessandro
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