From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Bill Currie <bcurrie@tssc.co.nz>
To: richard.earnshaw@arm.com
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>, Marc Rouaix <rouaix@my-dejanews.com>, egcs@cygnus.com, rearnsha@sun52.arm.com
Subject: Re: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 21:20:00 -0000
Message-id: <359B0985.2FB4@tssc.co.nz>
References: <199807011520.QAA13670@sun52.NIS.cambridge>
X-SW-Source: 1998-07/msg00063.html

Richard Earnshaw wrote:
>         if ((x = p()) != 0) {...}
> 
> Then it becomes clear why the extra parentheses are needed.

Yes, because without the parentheses, it will be evaluated as:

	if (x = (p() != 0)) {...}

And you're right back where you started from with a `suggest parentheses
around assignment used as truth value' warning.

Bill
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