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An assignment may invalidate pointers used in the left-hand side. In
case the result of the assignment is used, we therefore cannot re-use
the left-hand side to represent the result. Instead, introduce
temporaries as needed to store the right-hand side value, and use the
temporary to represent the result.

Fixes: #5857

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An assignment may invalidate pointers used in the left-hand side. In
case the result of the assignment is used, we therefore cannot re-use
the left-hand side to represent the result. Instead, introduce
temporaries as needed to store the right-hand side value, and use the
temporary to represent the result.

Fixes: diffblue#5857
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Merging #5858 (a59f36b) into develop (c4db021) will increase coverage by 0.00%.
The diff coverage is 100.00%.

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@tautschnig tautschnig merged commit a4c81ef into diffblue:develop Feb 23, 2021
@tautschnig tautschnig deleted the fix-5857 branch February 23, 2021 21:30
tautschnig added a commit to tautschnig/cbmc that referenced this pull request Feb 24, 2021
The fixes in diffblue#5858 addressed the problem of assignments having side
effects, but did not consider function calls or pre-increment/decrement,
which eventually also yield assignments, and thus may have similar side
effects.
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Spurious null-pointer failure on self-referential data structure

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