Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!aplcen!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn
From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: 'Possibly Incorrect Assignment' warnings from Turbo-C
Message-ID: <11684@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 25 Nov 89 20:04:01 GMT
References: <256D8362.18B@marob.masa.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <256D8362.18B@marob.masa.com> daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond) writes:
>if (p = func())
>Am I fooling myself by ass/u/ming that func() will always be invoked
>and its return value assigned to p, before p is evaluated ?

That's not what Turbo-C is warning you about.  It thinks you might have
meant to type:
	if (p == func())