[Bug c/20550] Silencing the warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type

[joseph at codesourcery dot com]

------- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com  2005-03-19 12:02 -------
Subject: Re:  New: Silencing the warning: comparison is always
 true due to limited range of data type

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, qrczak at knm dot org dot pl wrote:

> It would be nice if the warning "comparison is always true due to limited range
> of data type" could be turned off. From looking at the gcc source I conclude it
> can't. I couldn't find a workaround which generates the same code (casting the
> smaller type to the wider type just for the comparison doesn't silence the
> warning, using a wider type for the variable generates worse code).

I've suggesting moving this warning to an option -Wcomparison-fixed, not 
on by default and not in -Wall but included in -Wextra.  See bug 12963.



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