bizarre warnings
Jeffrey A Law
law@cygnus.com
Tue Sep 8 02:42:00 GMT 1998
In message < 199809070157.VAA28076@aloha.cc.columbia.edu >you write:
> While trying to make some code compile cleanly with -W -Wall I got some
> warnings I've never seen before.
>
> t-coverage/string-test.inc:314: warning: unsigned value < 0 is always 0
> t-coverage/string-test.inc:346: warning: unsigned value >= 0 is always 1
>
> These are valid from the compiler's point of view, but the code is correct
> (it's testing corner cases in a complicated macro). Is there a
> -Wno-something switch that kills these and *only* these warnings?
Don't know off the top of my head. You might look at the gcc manual
since it should list all the warning options.
> t-coverage/libm-test.inc:2382: warning: overflow on truncation to integer
> t-coverage/libm-test.inc:6212: warning: ediv invalid operation error
The ediv warning is due to 0/0 or inf/inf.
The overflow on truncation means there's a floating point number that
can not be represented with an int because it is too big.
jeff
More information about the Gcc
mailing list