"John (Eljay) Love-Jensen" <eljay@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> We're using iwmmxt_le-g++ (GCC) 3.3.1 (MontaVista 3.3.1-7.0.2.0401382 2004-10-07) ...
>
> Ahh, C++.
>
>> But it doesn't produce a warning on this line
>> if (bFoundFile = false) {
>> which is the actual code line that prompted my question.
>
> In C++, a bool is a truth value. If bFoundFile is a bool, then that constitutes a truth value. So it would not result in a warning.
I actually fixed that not too long ago, and current versions of g++ do
give a warning for this construct. gcc 3.3.1 is quite old, though. I
think the warning is new in 4.4, or possibly 4.3.
Ian
