*How do old-school C programmers ensure they don't accidentally use = when they ...

		jrockway on April 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: '9223372036854775807' == '9223372036854775808' How do old-school C programmers ensure they don't accidentally use = when they mean == ? By making the constant the expression's lvalue. But they don't have to do this anymore; gcc warns when you accidentally use = instead of == now.