Using shorthand *= leads to unexpected result?

[Marc Schütz via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Sunday, 15 May 2016 at 13:01:45 UTC, Michael wrote:
> It may be that I'm doing something wrong here, but after 
> updating DMD to the latest version, my simulations started 
> producing some very odd results and I think I've pinpointed it 
> to a sign inversion that I was making. Here is some code from 
> dpaste to demonstrate the behaviour I get vs. the behaviour I 
> expected:
> https://dpaste.dzfl.pl/9bd7aea75fb2
>
> Any ideas? Am I getting something wrong or is this some sort of 
> regression with the latest DMD?

It's a regression introduced here:
https://github.com/dlang/dmd/pull/5534

I've filed a bug report:
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16027