diff --git a/packages/compiler/src/backend/llvm/bytes-bounds.ts b/packages/compiler/src/backend/llvm/bytes-bounds.ts
index b35a949ff..29b1c8e15 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/src/backend/llvm/bytes-bounds.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/src/backend/llvm/bytes-bounds.ts
@@ -300,10 +300,18 @@ export function findBytesBounds(fn: IrFunction, ranges: IntegerRanges): Readonly
     const receiver = length.receiver;
     const comparison = lengthComparison(cond, { receiver, counter, offset: 0, minimum });
     if (comparison?.op !== "<" && comparison?.op !== "<=") return null;
+    // An increment is a statement of the body: one inside an expression
+    // (a comma expression's statements) would run where flow does not
+    // follow it.
     const writesOk = everyStmtList(s.body, {
       expr: (e) =>
-        (e.kind !== "assignExpr" && e.kind !== "incDec") ||
-        (e.localId !== counter && e.localId !== receiver),
+        ((e.kind !== "assignExpr" && e.kind !== "incDec") ||
+          (e.localId !== counter && e.localId !== receiver)) &&
+        everyExprChild(
+          e,
+          () => true,
+          (child) => !writes(child, counter),
+        ),
       stmt: (child) => {
         if (child.kind === "assign" && child.localId === counter)
           return increment(child, counter) !== null;
diff --git a/packages/compiler/test/while-bytes-bounds-emission.test.ts b/packages/compiler/test/while-bytes-bounds-emission.test.ts
index 2b6dc1d3c..a2604eed1 100644
--- a/packages/compiler/test/while-bytes-bounds-emission.test.ts
+++ b/packages/compiler/test/while-bytes-bounds-emission.test.ts
@@ -119,13 +119,27 @@ function nested(line: Uint8Array): number {
   }
   return total;
 }
+function comma(line: Uint8Array): number {
+  const len = line.length;
+  let i = 0;
+  let total = 0;
+  while (i < len) {
+    if ((i++, i > 0)) total += line[len - 1 - i]!;
+    total += line[len - 1 - i]!;
+  }
+  return total;
+}
 console.log(
+  comma(new Uint8Array(2)),
   inclusive(new Uint8Array(2)),
   unguarded(new Uint8Array(2)),
   ahead(new Uint16Array(3)),
   nested(new Uint8Array(3)),
 );
 `);
+  // The increment in the comma expression is not a statement of the
+  // body, so the loop has no bound and both reads keep their checks.
+  expect(checks(ll, "comma")).toBe(2);
   expect(checks(ll, "inclusive")).toBe(1);
   // The read before the increment is in bounds; the one after it is not.
   expect(checks(ll, "unguarded")).toBe(1);
diff --git a/tests/corpus/8003-while-reversed-byte-reads.ts b/tests/corpus/8003-while-reversed-byte-reads.ts
index 9b2efd4f0..1407b9324 100644
--- a/tests/corpus/8003-while-reversed-byte-reads.ts
+++ b/tests/corpus/8003-while-reversed-byte-reads.ts
@@ -166,3 +166,18 @@ function throwing(line: Uint8Array): string {
   return String(total);
 }
 console.log(throwing(new Uint8Array([4, 0, 2, 3])), throwing(new Uint8Array([1, 2])));
+
+// An increment inside an if condition's comma expression: both reads are
+// at index -1 on the last pass.
+function commaIncrement(line: Uint8Array): string {
+  const len = line.length;
+  let i = 0;
+  const out: (number | undefined)[] = [];
+  while (i < len) {
+    if ((i++, i > 0)) out.push(line[len - 1 - i]);
+    const v = line[len - 1 - i]!;
+    out.push(v);
+  }
+  return JSON.stringify(out);
+}
+console.log(commaIncrement(new Uint8Array([1, 2, 3])), commaIncrement(new Uint8Array(0)));