dblaikie added a comment.

In D140860#4028089 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D140860#4028089>, @hazohelet wrote:
> As you point out, enhancement may be more accurate than bug fix.
> There are rare cases where enabling a warning for missing parentheses in 
> `constexpr` logical expressions can be helpful, I think. For example, 
> consider the following code:
>
>   constexpr A = ...;
>   constexpr B = ...;
>   constexpr C = ...;
>   
>   static_assert(!(A && B || C));
>
> In this case, the static assertion will only be successful if `(A && B || C)` 
> evaluates to `false`, which is equivalent to the following combinations of 
> values for `A`, `B`, and `C`:
>
>   (A, B, C) = (T, F, F) (F, T, F) (F, F, F)
>
> Note that `T` means `true` and `F` means `false`. Here, `C` is always 
> `false`, so `A && B || C` matches the case of `a && b || 0`. Thus, the 
> warning is not issued before this patch.
> If the programmer is not careful and assumes that `(A && B || C)` is 
> equivalent to `(A && (B || C))`, then they expect the values of `A`, `B`, and 
> `C` to also include the following combinations:
>
>   (A, B, C) = (F, T, T) (F, F, T)
>
> This would require the programmer to consider additional, unnecessary 
> combinations after the successful static assertion.
>
> Enabling a warning for missing parentheses in this scenario could help 
> prevent the programmer from making this mistake.

Fair enough. I guess the same argument applies to the non-static case too. I 
think it was original mostly motivated by people using `&& "This is the reason 
for the assert"` without parentheses around the LHS & that was generally fine. 
So, so long as a string literal still does the suppression, it's probably fine.


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