Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 May 1999 01:02:31 -0400 | From | Arvind Sankar <> | Subject | [WAY OFFTOPIC] Re: fork() Problem? |
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On Thu, May 06, 1999 at 01:33:26AM -0400, Steve Willer wrote: > Lint is telling you that you've probably made a mistake, in that you > probably intended to do a comparison. The note about extra parentheses > has nothing to do with "extra sequence points", but as a way of telling > *lint* that you don't want it to complain about this. You can add 1, 5 or > 500 parentheses and it won't change the result of the expression.
The way this thread is going, I figured nobody could mind this minor nit: iirc, the compiler isn't required to support more than 32 nesting levels of parentheses or something.
> > If you wish to call it bad practice, that's fine. But don't call it a > compiler bug, because it's not. >
-- arvind
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