Fair enough. Given that things like `if (uid = 0) {}` can become a privilege escalation in the right context, surely code that takes the opposite branch of what

Fair enough. Given that things like `if (uid = 0) {}` can become a privilege escalation in the right context, surely code that takes the opposite branch of what it looks like is also dangerous in the wrong hands. I still remember being expected to pass -Wpedantic (and probably also -Wextra) in university.