> On 01/29/2021 2:58 PM Fred Cisin via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: >
> '=' and '==' makes possible what is probably the most common error, and > which the compiler doesn't catch: > if (x = 3) . . . /* sets x to 3 and gives TRUE for the condition */ > I imagine that there are probably some pre-processors that would return a > WARNING for it. > Modern Visual Studio and GCC both flag the "=" in a condition, I believe. But if you're shipping code with 260+ warnings, who would see one more. There's a pretty good chance the heat pump you're using right now has those warnings. Alas... Will
