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From: pmoore@hemel.bull.co.uk (Paul Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Funny mistake
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.095735.837@hemel.bull.co.uk>
Date: 22 Mar 91 09:57:35 GMT
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what seems to be needed is a compiler that will generater a warning about
	if(a=b)
(lets own up here, we have all made this mistake at one time or another , I got
so paranoid about this recently that I ended up writing
	while((a==getchar())!=EOF)
Try fixing that one - and no compiler ever complains about "possible unintended
non assignment")

To stop the compiler moaning about perfectly good code how about a "yes I know
there's an = instead of ==" pragama. Ie

#pragma nowarn
	if(a=b)

The pragma just applies to the next statement
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