}
}
- ir_instruction *tmp = new ir_assignment(lhs, rhs, NULL);
- instructions->push_tail(tmp);
+ /* Most callers of do_assignment (assign, add_assign, pre_inc/dec,
+ * but not post_inc) need the converted assigned value as an rvalue
+ * to handle things like:
+ *
+ * i = j += 1;
+ *
+ * So we always just store the computed value being assigned to a
+ * temporary and return a deref of that temporary. If the rvalue
+ * ends up not being used, the temp will get copy-propagated out.
+ */
+ ir_variable *var = new ir_variable(rhs->type, "assignment_tmp");
+ instructions->push_tail(new ir_assignment(new ir_dereference_variable(var),
+ rhs,
+ NULL));
+
+ instructions->push_tail(new ir_assignment(lhs,
+ new ir_dereference_variable(var),
+ NULL));
- return rhs;
+ return new ir_dereference_variable(var);
}