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Re: Assignment to volatile objects
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wrote:
> Until gcc gets a feature allowing it to whack the programmer on the back
> of the head with Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" for writing
> such stupid code that relies on the behaviour of volatile "a = b = 0;",
> then a warning seems like a good idea.
a = b = 0; might be stupid.
Is if ( ( a = expr ) ); is also stupid?
I thought that that idiom was cited as an example for the expressiveness of C
in the C bible (the K&R book).
Zoltan