Funny mistake

[karln at uunet.uu.net]

In article <2372 at kielo.uta.fi> av at kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) writes:
>In article <13337 at helios.TAMU.EDU> antek at binoc.tamu.edu (Antek Laczkowski) writes:
>>
>>"if (a = b)" instead of "if (a == b)". 
>>
>>That's a REALLY disgusting error, 
>>because the "C" compiler (at least under UNIX BSD 3.4) doesn't report it, 
>
>It seems, that almost all PC C compilers (at least Turbo C, C++) reports this
>kind of stuff.
>

	Is not this supposed to be a job for lint? Both ARE valid syntax ...

	Karl Nicholas

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