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From: "Talulah" <paul.hills@uk.landisgyr.com>
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Subject: Re: Translating an embedded C algorithm -- OT
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Cesar Rabak wrote:

> Maciej Sobczak escreveu:
> > Cesar Rabak wrote:
> >
> >> Would you believe that:
> >>
> >> if (a = 1) {
> >
> >> Is semantically valid C, but because it is very easy to mistake this
> >> when the intended was:
> >>
> >> if (a == 1) {
> >
> >> That there are tools to look for and signal this!?
> >
> > No need for separate tools, gcc -Wall issues an informative warning.
> > And you do compile with -Wall, right?
> >
> Not all C code is compiled [only] with gcc...


Quite right Cesar! I guess very little EMBEDDED code is compiled with
GCC. This is why in our company we have a rule that code must first
pass through Lint (which would catch that error) before being peer code
reviewed!