Re: warnings compiling Emacs 22 on amd64

[Francesco Potorti`]

>> 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.

???

>      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.  In fact, I'd say it is good
programming practice enclosing assignments in parentheses when the
result is what you want.