Funny mistake

J.T. Conklin jtc at motcad.portal.com
Sat Mar 16 04:04:49 AEST 1991


In article <8148 at rsiatl.Dixie.Com> stan at Dixie.Com (Stan Brown) writes:
>>"if (a = b)" instead of "if (a == b)". 
>
>	Some compilers will report this as a suspicous occurence.  The
>	one I think I remember this on is Zortech, but I have yet to
>	see a UNIX compiler complain about it,  The lint on my mchine
>	doesn't complain eithe.  I wonder if anybody's does ?

Gimpel's FlexeLint:
     if (a = b)
     foo.c  5  Info 720: Boolean test of assignment


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