egcs-1.0.2 bogus warning from fill_n()

["Munagala V. S. Ramanath" <ram at netcom dot com>]

Hi,

The following program produces what seems like a bogus warning:

/d2a/exper/include/g++/stl_algobase.h: In function `struct A ** fill_n<A **, int, int>(struct A **, int, const int &)':
/d2a/exper/include/g++/stl_algobase.h:293: warning: assignment to `A *' from `int' lacks a cast

Not sure what the standard says about this but it seems inconsistent
that direct assignment of 0 on line 8 is deemed ok but assignment of
0 via fill_n() on line 9 needs a cast.

My environment is SunOS 4.1.2:

g++ -v
Reading specs from /d2a/exper/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-sunos4.1.2/egcs-2.90.27/specs
gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)

Ram

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// egcs complains about needing a cast
#include <stl.h>
struct A {};
main()
{
    A   *a[ 10 ] ;

    a[ 0 ] = 0 ;          // ok
    fill_n( a, 10, 0 ) ;  // warning about needing cast

    return 0;
}
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