Incorrect return value from tuple with fixed-length array

Question

Why does the function below return [[1, 2], [2, 3]] instead of the expected [[1, 2], [3, 4]]? Tested in browser-solidity.

contract Contract {
    function test() constant returns(uint8[2], uint8[2]){
        uint8[2] memory a = [1, 2];
        uint8[2] memory b = [3, 4];
        return (a, b);
    }
}

Returning a fixed-length array as the first element in the return tuple appears to throw off the indexed memory location of the following elements, regardless of their type:

function test() constant returns(uint8[2], uint8) {
    uint8[2] memory a = [1, 2];
    uint8 b = 3;
    return (a, b); // WRONG: [[1, 2], 2]
}

This is also confusing:

function test() constant returns(uint8[4], uint8) {
    uint8[4] memory a = [1, 2, 3, 4];
    uint8 b = 3;
    return (a, b); // WRONG: [[1, 2, 3, 4], 2]
}

Answer 1

I do get the expected values:

  [ [ { [String: '1'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] },
      { [String: '2'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] } ],
    [ { [String: '3'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] },
      { [String: '4'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] } ] ]
  [ [ { [String: '1'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] },
      { [String: '2'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] } ],
    { [String: '3'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [ 3 ] } ]
  [ [ { [String: '1'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] },
      { [String: '2'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] },
      { [String: '3'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] },
      { [String: '4'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [Object] } ],
    { [String: '3'] s: 1, e: 0, c: [ 3 ] } ]