[Bug c/17257] Some assignment operators do not trigger "assignment used as * truth value" warning

[jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk]

------- Additional Comments From jsm at polyomino dot org dot uk  2004-09-01 00:32 -------
Subject: Re:  Some assignment operators do not trigger "assignment
 used as * truth value" warning

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, tlambert2 at mindspring dot com wrote:

> Would making this a warning when assignment warnings were enabled 
> typicaly result in a large number of additional warnings, or would it 
> typically result in no additional warnings?  I.e. would this be mostly 
> harmful, or mostly harmless?

When a bug in the C++ implementation resulted in warnings for the other 
assignment operators, it was quickly noticed, so I expect there would be 
many additional warnings.  Such cases as while (x >>= 1) seem to be 
common.



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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17257