On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Zoltán Kócsi <zol...@bendor.com.au> wrote: > David Brown <david.br...@hesbynett.no> wrote: > >> Until gcc gets a feature allowing it to whack the programmer on the back >> of the head with Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming" for writing >> such stupid code that relies on the behaviour of volatile "a = b = 0;", >> then a warning seems like a good idea. > > a = b = 0; might be stupid. > > Is if ( ( a = expr ) ); is also stupid?
If you ask me, yes. > > I thought that that idiom was cited as an example for the expressiveness of C > in the C bible (the K&R book). > > Zoltan
