c/10604: -Wall includes sign conversion warning [3.3 regression]

[ak@suse.de]

>Number:         10604
>Category:       c
>Synopsis:       -Wall includes sign conversion warning [3.3 regression]
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 02 18:36:01 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andi Kleen
>Release:        gcc 3.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
linux
>Description:


gcc 3.2 did not included signed<->unsigned conversion warnings in -Wall. gcc 3.3 does. This causes incredible noise in building some projects with -Wall like the linux kernel. It also breaks some other projects that use -Werror -Wall. Fixing the warning correctly is usually a lot of work because it requires careful code review. 

In gcc 3.2 this was only in -W, now it's in -Wall
It can be worked around by specifying -Wno-sign-compare,
but -Wall should not change this way between releases.
>How-To-Repeat:
see attachment. with gcc 3.3:

% /pkg/gcc-3.3-030124/bin/gcc -Wall tsign.c 
tsign.c: In function `f':
tsign.c:4: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned

with 3.2:
% gcc -Wall tsign.c -c
% 

(no warning) 
>Fix:

Remove -Wsign-compare from -Wall
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
----gnatsweb-attachment----
Content-Type: text/plain; name="tsign.c"
Content-Disposition: inline; filename="tsign.c"


int f(unsigned a, int b) 
{ 
	return a < b;
}