On 04/05/2012 01:28 PM, Michael Veksler wrote: > As for specific warnings, I hate that the the code (a&&b || c&&d), > which did not cause a warning on older gcc version now gives a > warning. I would not want it on by default since it forces users to > write too many parentheses in ((a&&b)||(c&&d)) which makes the > expression less readable. What next? Warn about (a*b+c*d) ? I would > hate to write ((a*b)+(c*d)). > > Sure, the precedence of: << vs. +; & vs. == ; & vs. && ; is less > clear and deserves a warning, but: & vs. | ; && vs. || ; are at > least as common as * vs. + that programmers ought to know them.
Absolutely so, yes. I'd consider this a bug in gcc, just as if it warned for arithmetic. Andrew.