The assignment operator has lower precedence than &&
, so your condition is equivalent to:
if ((match == 0 && k) = m)
But the left-hand side of this is an rvalue, namely the boolean resulting from the evaluation of the subexpression match == 0 && k
, so you cannot assign to it.
By contrast, comparison has higher precedence, so match == 0 && k == m
is equivalent to:
if ((match == 0) && (k == m))