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Re:Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwo... by thaumasiotes on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:42AM (#27927591)
I'm guessing the question is related to this complaint:

> What I would like to write in unit tests:

> ok &= check(x);

> That gets you angry messages from static analysis

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Re:Google broke a conditional statement that verifies passwo... by dataflow on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:45AM (#27927608)
That has nothing to do with the standard though? The behavior is well-defined, it's just compilers warning about use of & tending to be error-prone (rightly or wrongly).
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