Is something wrong with the compiler ?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <884 at gtenmc.UUCP> csp at 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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