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[Bug c/67314] No warning on assigning an out-of-range integer to an enum
- From: "egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu" <gcc-bugzilla at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- To: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:20:10 +0000
- Subject: [Bug c/67314] No warning on assigning an out-of-range integer to an enum
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- References: <bug-67314-4 at http dot gcc dot gnu dot org/bugzilla/>
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67314
Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu> changed:
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--- Comment #5 from Eric Gallager <egall at gwmail dot gwu.edu> ---
(In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #4)
> The trouble is that while gcc makes it easy to assign without a warning
> values to enums that are outside the range of the enumerated type, it makes
> it difficult to handle such values in case and switch statements without
> eliciting one of the -Wswitch warnings. In those cases gcc either complains
> about "case values being not in enumerated type" or it complains about a
> "switch missing default case" and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to
> make it happy.
See also Bug 61864 for more on issues with warnings having to do with the
relationship between enums and switch statements.