G++/GCC not detetcing stupid errors in code.

[Sven Eschenberg]

You are looking for -Wconversion I guess.

Implicit conversion are a nice thing to have ;-).

Regards

-Sven


Laurent Dufréchou schrieb:
> Hi there,
>
> IÂ’m using g++ for the first time via gcc 4.1.2.
> IÂ’ve written a little code (first C++ oriented and because guys with which I
> work come from C, it is slightly modified to compile with G++ and gcc)
>
>   
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>  
> //#include <iostream>
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> //using namespace std;
>
> int main()
>
> {
>
>                 int toto;
>
>                 short tata;
>
>                 toto = 1111118;
>
>                 tata = toto;  //error 1!
>
>                 //cout << toto << "tata:" << tata << endl;
>
>                 printf("%d %i",toto,tata);
>
>                 //return 0; //error 2 because no return
>
> }
>
>   
>
> I i compile with gcc (cc), it detects no int returned error (OK good point)
> But the downcast (tata = toto) doesnÂ’t raise any warning!
>
> If I use G++ the downcast is not detected and even more the return is not
> also detected (!)
>
> I was thining that Gcc was really strict and I choose it because I was
> thinking that, IÂ’m quite disappointed :/
> I’ve tried –Wall –Wextra –pedantic + a ton of other switch with no luck…
>
> Do i miss something ? 
>
> How can I put Gcc in “user is stupid I need to check all” mode?
>
>
> Laurent
>
>