Possibly incorrect warning with gcc -Wconversion

[Andreas Schwab]

Charlie Zender <zender@uci.edu> writes:

> Hi,
>
> GCC emits a warning when compiling the following code with gcc
> -Wconversion, and no warning without -Wconversion. 
> Given that the code appears legal/straightforward to me,
> I am reporting this. My motivation is to compile a large set of
> code with strict warning checks and -Werror, so I am trying to
> fix all warnings.

-Wconversion is only useful to help adding prototypes to existing,
prototype impaired source.  It is not intented to be used for modern
prototyped C code.

Andreas.

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