Re: warnings compiling Emacs 22 on amd64

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> I looked at the gcc 4.1 info page, and I found no warnings to turn off
>>> that are specific for this case (I looked for the string "compar").
>> Yes, I believe there's no way.  Which is why I think the least bad course
>> is -Wno-foo.
> ???

Oops, sorry, I misunderstood at first reading.  We should ask the gcc
people what thet recommend.

>> if (foo = bar) ...
>> 
>> gcc warns that you may have meant == instead of =, so if you really meant =
>> you can just write
>> 
>> if ((foo = bar)) ...

> Probably this is just because it is then clear that the logical expression
> is the result of the expression inside the parentheses.  I mean, not in
> fact a special case for gcc.

Probably, yes.


        Stefan