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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <15481@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 15 Mar 91 19:30:09 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.125034.2825@st-andy.uucp> <13337@helios.TAMU.EDU> <8148@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <8148@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> stan@Dixie.Com (Stan Brown) writes:
>>"if (a = b)" instead of "if (a == b)". 
>... I have yet to see a UNIX compiler complain about it

That's good, because it is valid C and the compiler cannot know whether
or not it reflects the programmer's intentions.