[Bug c/67314] No warning on assigning an out-of-range integer to an enum
egallager at gcc dot gnu.org
gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org
Wed Nov 20 05:41:00 GMT 2019
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=67314
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed:
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Last reconfirmed|2016-01-16 00:00:00 |2019-11-20
--- Comment #8 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> ---
(In reply to Eric Gallager from comment #7)
> (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.
Update: Still no warning on this testcase even after -Wenum-conversion was
added to fix bug 78736
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