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Re: -Wconversion versus libstdc++
Paolo Carlini <pcarlini@suse.de> writes:
| Hi Gerald,
|
| >I noticed that -Wconversion now issues warnings in libstdc++.
| >
| in a nutshell, what is happening is that a difference of two pointers
| is assigned to an unsigned variable. First blush, the warning seems to
| me a bit overzealous, but if we concur that this is what we *really*
| want for 4.3, we can change the affected (very old, indeed) lines of
| code, no problem at all.
As I just noted in the PR, I suspect the issue is more fundamental
than just changing a few lines. It is that of breaking or holding a
promise made through max_size().
-- Gaby