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[Bug c/35547] New: -Wparentheses not useful in its current form


The new warnings about parentheses suggested around &&
inside || and things like that are annoying. For me, and
I assume for many other programmers, these are as natural
as that * is stronger than +.

So I will definitely not litter my code with parentheses
to make GCC happy about this. Rather I'd disable that
warning. But that would also disable the assignment
in if() warning, which is a different thing and useful.

So my suggestion would be to split -Wparentheses
into three warning options (at least) as follows:

-Wtruth-assignment    warns about if (a=b)
-Wdangling-else       warns about if (a) if (b) else ...
-Woperator-precedence warns about a && b || c

I checked the source, this seems trivial to change.
It is more a politcal issue. So what are the opinions on it?


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           Summary: -Wparentheses not useful in its current form
           Product: gcc
           Version: 4.3.0
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: c
        AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org
        ReportedBy: duz at sol-3 dot de
 GCC build triplet: any
  GCC host triplet: any
GCC target triplet: any


http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35547


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