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Here's a standard textbook question:

If $f_n(x)\to f(x)$ pointwise at any $x\in\mathbb{R}$ and $f_n,f$ are all differentiable, does $\lim f_n'(x)=f'(x)$ for all $x$ ?

The answer is 'no', even the limit may not exist at some points, and the standard counterexample is $f_n(x)=\frac{\sin nx}{n}$.


Now my question (also inspired by Term-by-term differentiation of a sequence of functions without uniform convergence of derivatives):

Assume that

$f_n(x)\to f(x)$ pointwise at any $x\in\mathbb{R}$

$f_n,f$ are all differentiable at any $x\in\mathbb{R}$

$f_n'(x)\to g(x)$ pointwise at any $x\in\mathbb{R}$ (this eliminates the standard examples like above)

Does it imply $g(x)=f'(x)$ for all $x$ ?

Probably the answer is still 'no' (and 'yes' for uniform convergence), but I couldn't find a counterexample here.

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