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[Bug c/77292] Spurious "warning: logical not is only applied to the left hand side of comparison"
- From: "terra at gnome dot org" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2016 11:35:22 +0000
- Subject: [Bug c/77292] Spurious "warning: logical not is only applied to the left hand side of comparison"
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https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77292
--- Comment #3 from M Welinder <terra at gnome dot org> ---
The actual code I got this warning from was...
if (!lower_tail == (p > phalf)) {
where lower_tail is an int and p and phalf are doubles.
That's simply a comparison of two booleans. Note, that the hinted-at code
!(lower_tail == (p > phalf))
is dubious: comparing an int to a booleans.
> this isn't visible to the compiler when it analyzes
> return !a == b;
I am not aware of a rule that requires the compiler to ignore context
when considering warnings. It certainly does consider context when
it issues "might be used uninitialized" warnings, so why not here?