Why am i getting this warning in “if (fd=fopen(fileName,”r”) == NULL)”?

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Due to operator precedence rules the condition is interpreted as fd=(fopen(fileName,"r") == NULL). The result of == is integer, fd is a pointer, thus the error message.

Consider the “extended” version of your code:

FILE *fd;
int ok;
fd = fopen(fileName, "r");
ok = fd == NULL;
// ...

Would you expect the last line to be interpreted as (ok = fd) == NULL, or ok = (fd == NULL)?

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