[fpc-pascal] Changing variable in conditional

[Henry Vermaak]

On Wed, Jan 09, 2013 at 08:42:22AM +0000, Mark Morgan Lloyd wrote:
> But if you want an example of a very nasty bug caused by C/C++
> multiple assignment, there was a well-documented attempt to slip a
> privilege escalation into the Linux kernel based on this a few years
> ago.
> 
> It's very easy to argue against multiple assignment. It's less easy
> to argue against implementing an equivalent of the C/C++
> conditional.

Are you talking about this one?

http://lwn.net/Articles/57135/

Henry