[Bug c/23964] -Wparentheses doesn't catch all assignments used as truth value

[falk at debian dot org]

------- Additional Comments From falk at debian dot org  2005-09-19 13:14 -------
(In reply to comment #2)

> Well, all these examples are assignments. I don't agree that '=' is a somewhat
> unique or special assignment.

But of course it is. It is the only case where people make mistakes.

> According to documentation (and that would be
> logically correct) any kind of assignment should be caught when used as truth
> value without additional parentheses.

"logically correct" is not a meaningful concept when dealing with warnings.
The question is rather whether they flag code that is frequently mistaken.
And I don't see that for these cases. So at best we could "fix" the 
documentation, although that seems unneccesarily pedantic to me.


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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23964