GCC warnings can be overly pedantic. It's setup to warn about common footguns but doesn't know what your intent is. In this case it's a common enough idiom to assign within a control statement that GCC has the extra parens escape hatch.

You shouldn't just blindly let your tooling dictate how you work. It's a tool that's supposed to work for you, not control you. -Wall and -Wextra are good baselines but I always disable some of their warnings because I don't need the hassle on known good code.