I just put the source code of exo-0.10.2 through the static analyser cppcheck. It said [exo-icon-bar.c:1164] -> [exo-icon-bar.c:1164]: (style) Same expression on both sides of '&&'. Source code is if (G_LIKELY (item->width != -1 && item->width != -1)) return; Maybe if (G_LIKELY (item->width != -1 && item->height != -1)) return; would be better code.
This indeed looks like a small bug in exo-icon-bar that still exists: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/tree/exo/exo-icon-bar.c#n1164. Note that exo's icon-bar isn't really used anymore anywhere nowadays. One of the last places was xfce4-power-manager as far as I know.
Good catch, fix applied here: http://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/commit/?id=3bf3c7f643713d3ed8ddd4030405b71dfa1148ba