Subject: Re: -Wno-parenthesis
To: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: tech-kern
Date: 06/06/1999 17:50:57
On Sun, 6 Jun 1999 13:22:57 -0700 (PDT)
Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com> wrote:
> I know, C has too many operator priority levels, and I know, some of them
> are peculiar, such as + - over << >>. But -Wparentheses is too strict,
> e.g., it complains about not grouping && instructions just because there
> is an ||.
Actually, I really like that... it's caught a couple of bugs for me, more
than once...
> Plus, redundant parens are prohibited in KNF. (Unless `the statement is
> really confusing without them'. Not `confusing', but `really confusing'.)
I think that's a bug in the spec :-)
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>