[Bug c++/11856] unsigned warning in template

[gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu]

------- Comment #16 from gdr at cs dot tamu dot edu  2007-01-17 01:30 -------
Subject: Re:  unsigned warning in template

"manu at gcc dot gnu dot org" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org> writes:

| (In reply to comment #14)
| > | We don't emit a warning when instantiated as a signed char, so everything
| > boils
| > | down to having an option to disable the warning, doesn't it?
| > 
| > the logical inference escapes me.
| > 
| 
| Is having an option to disable the warning the right fix for this PR or is it
| not?

You made an inference in an earlier message, and I would like to
understand it.  Because, I do not believe a nobe in form
of "hey, you can silence it with with sledge-hammer" is the solution to this
particular type of constructs -- note that constants are involved.

Care to explain further your earlier message?

-- Gaby


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