Question about -Wstrict-overflow=2

[Andrew Haley]

On 3/8/21 9:05 PM, Martin Sebor via Gcc-help wrote:
> I think rewriting the test as an equality would be an improvement:
> argptr is incremented by 1 in each iteration so there's no way for
> the pointer to be greater than endbuf.
> 
>             if (argptr == endbuf)
>                  return false;

You can, but it arguably makes the code more fragile and less easy
to reason about. I'm not in favour of tying programs in knots in order
to appease warnings.

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