From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
To: "Marc Rouaix" <rouaix@my-dejanews.com>
Cc: egcs@cygnus.com
Subject: Re: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value
Date: Wed, 01 Jul 1998 02:51:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <vyzra05vqzo.fsf@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <JMDHPDCIACOECAAA@my-dejanews.com>
"Marc Rouaix" <rouaix@my-dejanews.com> writes:
|> I'd just like to register my opiniont that code like
|>
|> if (x = p()) {...}
|>
|> shouldn't generate a warning under gcc -Wall.
What if you have a typo here?
|> Even if
|> you feel that code like this is obscure, the recommended
|>
|> if ((x = p())) {...}
|>
|> is just bizarre.
Then write it as:
x = p();
if (x) {...}
--
Andreas Schwab "And now for something
schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different"
schwab@gnu.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-07-01 2:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-06-30 19:49 Marc Rouaix
1998-07-01 2:51 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
1998-07-01 9:20 ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-07-01 21:20 ` Bill Currie
1998-07-02 7:08 ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-07-03 3:31 ` Nathan Sidwell
1998-07-03 6:15 ` Richard Earnshaw
1998-07-01 3:42 ` Branko Cibej
1998-07-02 7:08 ` Carlo Wood
1998-07-03 14:48 ` Kamil Iskra
1998-07-01 4:00 Brad M. Garcia
1998-07-01 20:20 ` Tim Hollebeek
1998-07-02 1:39 ` Harvey J. Stein
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