On 23 November 2015 at 11:50, Brantley Coile wrote: > These bloated compilers can never be idiot proof because idiots are so > ingenious. One thing that struck me about that earlier gcc example, where the test for "tun" is eliminated because of bad compiler reasoning, is that the same compiler whines interminably until you put parentheses round nearly everything. Ok, ok, some of the priorities in C are weird for historical reasons, but it's very tedious wading through parentheses in cases where the priority is indeed conventional.