[Bug c/67314] No warning on assigning an out-of-range integer to an enum

[egallager at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67314

Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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                 CC|                            |egallager at gcc dot gnu.org
           See Also|                            |https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzill
                   |                            |a/show_bug.cgi?id=61864,
                   |                            |https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzill
                   |                            |a/show_bug.cgi?id=78736,
                   |                            |https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzill
                   |                            |a/show_bug.cgi?id=7654

--- Comment #7 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #5)
> (In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #4)
> > The trouble is that while gcc makes it easy to assign without a warning
> > values to enums that are outside the range of the enumerated type, it makes
> > it difficult to handle such values in case and switch statements without
> > eliciting one of the -Wswitch warnings.  In those cases gcc either complains
> > about "case values being not in enumerated type" or it complains about a
> > "switch missing default case" and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to
> > make it happy.
> 
> See also Bug 61864 for more on issues with warnings having to do with the
> relationship between enums and switch statements.

Bug 78736 and bug 7654 are both also related.