Re: warning: suggest parenthesis around assignment used as truth value

[Ben Abbott]

On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Rob Mahurin wrote:

> On Mar 12, 2009, at 9:08 PM, Ben Abbott wrote:
> > Can someone explain what this warning is intended to imply?
> >
> >         warning: suggest parenthesis around assignment used as truth value
>
> This is a gcc warning? The idiom
>         if (x=1) { ... }
> is legal and useful but often a typo for
>         if (x==1) { ... }
> Extra parentheses
>         if ((x=1)) { ... }
> apparently suppress the warning.
>
> Cheers,
> Rob

ok, I'm convinced that you are correct. It doesn't appears  more  
likely that the error is from gcc.

Ben