c/6024: GCC fails to diagnose mismatch of enum types in prototype/function

Joseph S. Myers jsm28@cam.ac.uk
Thu Mar 21 06:39:00 GMT 2002


On 21 Mar 2002 rearnsha@arm.com wrote:

> Gcc fails to diagnose when an enum type in a prototype
> fails to match the enum type in a function declation.
> >How-To-Repeat:
> Compile the following code, GCC compiles it without error: it
> should generate a diagnostic.

The types are compatible, which means these declarations are OK.  (Unless
you use -fshort-enums, in which case the type in the prototype disagrees
with the promoted type from the non-prototype definition.)

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
jsm28@cam.ac.uk



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