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From: =?utf-8?Q?Lawrence_Vel=C3=A1zquez?= <vq@larryv.me>
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Subject: Re: No word splitting for assignment-like expressions in compound assignment
Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2020 18:19:09 -0400
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> On Jul 27, 2020, at 4:02 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> =
wrote:
>=20
> On Jul 27 2020, Lawrence Vel=C3=A1zquez wrote:
>=20
>> If word splitting were not performed in compound assignments, this...
>>=20
>>    foo=3D(a b c)
>>=20
>> ...would not work.
>=20
> This is not true.  Field splitting is only relevant for words =
generated
> by other expansions, not for literal tokens.

My fault, I got it mixed up with tokenization. Carry on!

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