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From: jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <1991Mar15.180449.13100@motcad.portal.com>
Date: 15 Mar 91 18:04:49 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.125034.2825@st-andy.uucp> <13337@helios.TAMU.EDU> <8148@rsiatl.Dixie.Com>
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Organization: Computer Signal Inc., San Ramon, California
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In article <8148@rsiatl.Dixie.Com> stan@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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