On Oct 14, 2012, at 8:19 , Stephen Canon <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 12, 2012, at 12:38 PM, Richard Trieu <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> This patch is for a new warning to Clang, called -Wlogical-not-compare.  It 
>> is designed to catch the case where the user is attempting to negate a 
>> comparison, but only manages to negate the LHS because of missing parens.  
>> For instance, warn here:
>> 
>>     if (!x < 5)
>> 
>> The user probably meant:
>> 
>>     if (!(x < 5))
>> 
>> or
>> 
>>     if (x >= 5)
>> 
>> When emitted, the warning will have a note suggesting this as a fix-it (drop 
>> the not and inverting the comparison operator).
> 
> If x has FP type, then !(x < 5) is not equivalent to (x >= 5); if x is NaN, 
> the first is true, but the second is false.

The fixit is on a note, so I personally think it's okay that it doesn't 
perfectly match the semantics of the existing expression. I think most people 
ignore NaNs when writing casual floating-point code.

Jordan
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