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by ancgop 2144 days ago
However they do not emit a warning if the assignment is parenthesized, like in the exploit. I think static analysis tools are the same, they would be way too chatty if they emitted warning for a parenthesized assignment.

Static analysis already has way too many false positives as it stands. For a well maintained code base the rate can easily be 100% false positives, which gets annoying after some time.