-Wparentheses lumps too much together

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Fri Jan 11 23:26:00 GMT 2008


Joe Buck <Joe.Buck@synopsys.COM> writes:

> A warning that flagged code like
> 
> if (c1 || c2 && c3)
>    ...
> 
> would swamp users in warnings, since this kind of code is extremely
> common, and this isn't the kind of thing that anyone who's not a total C
> beginner has trouble with.

That is what -Wparentheses does today.

I think it's a good thing, because I've seen it catch coding errors in
real code.

Ian



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