diff --git a/lib/vtls/wolfssl.c b/lib/vtls/wolfssl.c
index f6e1e6446a..9d5366dfe7 100644
--- a/lib/vtls/wolfssl.c
+++ b/lib/vtls/wolfssl.c
@@ -1759,7 +1759,7 @@ static CURLcode wssl_handshake(struct Curl_cfilter *cf,
       }
     }
 #ifdef USE_ECH_WOLFSSL
-    else if(-1 == detail) {
+    else if(detail == -1) {
       /* try access a retry_config ECHConfigList for tracing */
       byte echConfigs[1000];
       word32 echConfigsLen = 1000;
diff --git a/src/tool_dirhie.c b/src/tool_dirhie.c
index 24759a642b..2c8aba362b 100644
--- a/src/tool_dirhie.c
+++ b/src/tool_dirhie.c
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ CURLcode create_dir_hierarchy(const char *outfile, struct GlobalConfig *global)
 
     /* Create directory. Ignore access denied error to allow traversal. */
     /* !checksrc! disable ERRNOVAR 1 */
-    if(!skip && (-1 == mkdir(curlx_dyn_ptr(&dirbuf), (mode_t)0000750)) &&
+    if(!skip && (mkdir(curlx_dyn_ptr(&dirbuf), (mode_t)0000750) == -1) &&
        (errno != EACCES) && (errno != EEXIST)) {
       show_dir_errno(global, curlx_dyn_ptr(&dirbuf));
       result = CURLE_WRITE_ERROR;
diff --git a/src/tool_getparam.c b/src/tool_getparam.c
index 4766dade2f..6a84478102 100644
--- a/src/tool_getparam.c
+++ b/src/tool_getparam.c
@@ -1585,7 +1585,7 @@ static ParameterError parse_time_cond(struct OperationConfig *config,
     break;
   }
   config->condtime = (curl_off_t)curl_getdate(nextarg, NULL);
-  if(-1 == config->condtime) {
+  if(config->condtime == -1) {
     curl_off_t value;
     /* now let's see if it is a filename to get the time from instead! */
     int rc = getfiletime(nextarg, config->global, &value);
diff --git a/src/tool_getpass.c b/src/tool_getpass.c
index eea46fb526..fc59accc07 100644
--- a/src/tool_getpass.c
+++ b/src/tool_getpass.c
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ char *getpass_r(const char *prompt, /* prompt to display */
   ssize_t nread;
   bool disabled;
   int fd = open("/dev/tty", O_RDONLY);
-  if(-1 == fd)
+  if(fd == -1)
     fd = STDIN_FILENO; /* use stdin if the tty could not be used */
 
   disabled = ttyecho(FALSE, fd); /* disable terminal echo */