• radopas hotmail.com Oct 08 2002
• bw <bw_member pathlink.com> Oct 08 2002
• Heinz Saathoff <hsaat bre.ipnet.de> Oct 09 2002
• "Walter" <walter digitalmars.com> Oct 08 2002

int *ptr=...;
while(*ptr++);
..
At the while loop dmc gives "Warning 2: possible unintended assignment".
what code is generated in this case?
I mean will it work as it is expected or the optimizer will remove it, or
something else.

best regards
rado

In article <anvhit$2um5$1 digitaldaemon.com>, radopas hotmail.com says...
int *ptr=...;
while(*ptr++);
..
At the while loop dmc gives "Warning 2: possible unintended assignment".


dang i couldn't get that error either... 
did get Warning 7: possible extraneous ';'

wonder what's up?
i have sc.exe and dmc.exe v8.29n dated 7/24/02 22:09

while(*ptr++);  hmmm...?

bw schrieb...
while(*ptr++);
..
At the while loop dmc gives "Warning 2: possible unintended assignment".




Unintended assignment warnings will be given with code like this

  int tmp;
  int *ptr;
  // ....
  while(tmp=*ptr++) { some_code }
         ^^^^^^
Should this really be a assignment or was a compare intended. This was a 
common error I made when I moved from Pascal to C.
 
 dang i couldn't get that error either... 
 did get Warning 7: possible extraneous ';'
 
 wonder what's up?
 i have sc.exe and dmc.exe v8.29n dated 7/24/02 22:09
 
 while(*ptr++);  hmmm...?


This warning is given because the ; could have been set unintentionally, 
as in

  while(*ptr++);  //<< unwanted ';' here?
	Function(ptr-1);

The programmer want's to call Function in the while loop. But instead 
the Function is only called once when the while loop is finished.

In both cases the code will work as written (intended).

- Heinz

 

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news:anvhit$2um5$1 digitaldaemon.com...
 int *ptr=...;
 while(*ptr++);
 ..
 At the while loop dmc gives "Warning 2: possible unintended assignment".
 what code is generated in this case?
 I mean will it work as it is expected or the optimizer will remove it, or
 something else.


It'll work fine, it's just that many programmers adopt a style avoiding
assignment statements that are used as booleans. You can avoid it by writing
as:
    while (*ptr++ != 0)
        ;