[Bug c/77292] Spurious warning: logical not is only applied to the left hand side of comparison

segher at gcc dot gnu.org gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Fri Aug 19 16:35:00 GMT 2016


https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77292

--- Comment #13 from Segher Boessenkool <segher at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Manuel López-Ibáñez from comment #12)
> (In reply to Segher Boessenkool from comment #11)
> > Both of these suggestions are not so good.  "!(a == b)" is better written
> > as "a != b", and "!(a) == b" is just horrible.
> 
> Agreed for the former, but the latter is suggesting (!a) == b, which is IMHO
> clearer than ! a == b.

Ah.  The parens are placed suggestively around the "a" in the suggestion, so
it is misleading even :-/  (Or maybe I'm just not very good at reading).


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