http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58943
--- Comment #5 from Jakub Jelinek <jakub at gcc dot gnu.org> --- So something like: --- gcc/c/c-typeck.c.jj 2013-12-03 08:27:22.000000000 +0100 +++ gcc/c/c-typeck.c 2013-12-04 11:53:57.160894632 +0100 @@ -5192,6 +5192,7 @@ build_modify_expr (location_t location, { tree result; tree newrhs; + tree rhseval = NULL_TREE; tree rhs_semantic_type = NULL_TREE; tree lhstype = TREE_TYPE (lhs); tree olhstype = lhstype; @@ -5253,8 +5254,17 @@ build_modify_expr (location_t location, /* Construct the RHS for any non-atomic compound assignemnt. */ if (!is_atomic_op) { + /* If in LHS op= RHS the RHS has side-effects, ensure they + are preevaluated before the rest of the assignment expression's + side-effects, because RHS could contain e.g. function calls + that modify LHS. */ + if (TREE_SIDE_EFFECTS (rhs)) + { + newrhs = c_save_expr (rhs); + rhseval = newrhs; + } newrhs = build_binary_op (location, - modifycode, lhs, rhs, 1); + modifycode, lhs, newrhs, 1); /* The original type of the right hand side is no longer meaningful. */ @@ -5268,7 +5278,7 @@ build_modify_expr (location_t location, if so, we need to generate setter calls. */ result = objc_maybe_build_modify_expr (lhs, newrhs); if (result) - return result; + goto return_result; /* Else, do the check that we postponed for Objective-C. */ if (!lvalue_or_else (location, lhs, lv_assign)) @@ -5362,7 +5372,7 @@ build_modify_expr (location_t location, if (result) { protected_set_expr_location (result, location); - return result; + goto return_result; } } @@ -5383,11 +5393,15 @@ build_modify_expr (location_t location, as the LHS argument. */ if (olhstype == TREE_TYPE (result)) - return result; + goto return_result; result = convert_for_assignment (location, olhstype, result, rhs_origtype, ic_assign, false, NULL_TREE, NULL_TREE, 0); protected_set_expr_location (result, location); + +return_result: + if (rhseval) + result = build2 (COMPOUND_EXPR, TREE_TYPE (result), rhseval, result); return result; } ? In any case, it will have various consequences on OpenMP and perhaps vectorization.