C++: No Warning for passing value > 255 as parameter to a function requiring "unsigned char"

[Martin Wodok]

Hi Gaby
hi Eljay,

thanks for your answer!

> Martin Wodok <m.wodok@osb-ag.de> writes:
> | Assigning 1000 is of course out of bounds for "unsigned char", thus the
>
> No, it is not.  Unsigned integer types are modulo types; it is no overflow.

Yes, they're modulo types, that's why this is NOT an error, but I still think 
that should be a WARNING. There're compilers like Tasking that throw a 
warning out on that one, so I'm really searching for a way to enable a 
warning for that one (maybe something like the warning -Wconversion), and not 
some extra code (Eljay, thanks anyway!!), because it should work on existing 
code and I don't want to get code-explosion (we're working embedded) just 
because some range-check that could be done by the compiler...

So it seems there's really no way for GCC to warn here?

Thanks again Gaby and Eljay,
/\/\artin

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