Hi John, > Is there a warning option that can catch the common blunder > if (x = y) ... > when assignment was not intended? I can't find one in our documentation. Yes, use: gcc -Wparentheses foo.c Also enabled by: gcc -Wall foo.c > By the way, I know it's usual to state the version of gcc being used when asking almost any question, but I don't know what version it is. How can I find out the version? It's for the iwmmxt_le architecture. gcc --version HTH, --Eljay