Re: bug ? : -Wpedantic -Wconversion 'short a=1; a-=1;' complaint

[Jonathan Wakely <jwakely at redhat dot com>]

On 16/05/18 13:58 +0000, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> Great thanks for your informative response, Jim! :
> RE:
> On 23/04/2018, Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com> wrote:
> > On 04/23/2018 07:11 AM, Jason Vas Dias wrote:
> > > I really do not think a '-Wpedantic -Wconversion' warning should
> > > be generated for the following code, but it is
> > > (with GCC 6.4.1 and 7.3.1 on RHEL-7.5 Linux) :
> > >
> > >   $ echo '
> > >   typedef unsigned short U16_t;
> > >   static void f(void)
> > >   { U16_t a = 1;
> > >     a-=1;
> > >   }' > t.C;
> >
> > gcc@gcc.gnu.org dropped as inappropriate.  Note that gcc-bugs is output
> > from our bugzilla.  Sending email here isn't very useful.  If you want a
> > bug fixed, you have to open a bug report in bugzilla.  You can ask gcc
> > questions on gcc help.

Please move this to a mailing list other than gcc-bugs, because as
explained that is for automated email from Bugzilla.

You've added "gcc@gcc.org" which is nothing to do with GCC.
gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org is the right mailing list.