------- Comment #6 from ianw at vmware dot com 2008-04-28 22:28 -------
(In reply to comment #5)
> (In reply to comment #4)
> > Oh, just to be clear, my point was if (a=10) warns, but the extra
> > parenthesis
> > hide the warning.
>
> That is by design.
Ok, I did try looking but is that documented anywhere?
It would seem to have ramifications for people that do things like make an
ASSERT statement something like
#define ASSERT(v) {if (!(v))}
A quick search on google codesearch showed this was a very common idiom...
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http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=25733
