Integral of function composed with two Dirac deltas

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I'm looking to evaluate the following integral:

$\int_{- \infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta(x-a) \delta(x-a)dx$

If instead of two identical Dirac deltas we had:

$\int_{- \infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta(x-a) \delta(x-b)dx$

I believe we would have

$\int_{- \infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta(x-a) \delta(x-b)dx = f(a) \delta(a-b)$

which with $a=b$ leaves the result undefined. I'm tempted to say the result of the integral is just $f(a)$, but I feel that that may not exactly be rigorous.

Edit:

I should note that this problem came up in computing the power spectrum of a Langevin equation, so the integral is actually:

$\int_{- \infty}^{\infty} f(x) \delta^*(x-a) \delta(x-a)dx$

where * denotes the complex conjugate. I'm not sure if the conjugate of the Dirac delta has any meaning.