-Wconversion ignores type casts

[Philipp Thomas]

* Theodore W. Hall (hall@mariana.arch.cuhk.edu.hk) [20000627 16:09]:

> The "-Wconversion" warning option seems to ignore explicit type casts
> on function arguments.  I'm attaching a small C source file that
> demonstrates the problem.

Quoting a collegue of mine:

    Don't use -Wconversion.  It is useless with ISO-C code.  It is only
    usefull if you want to add prototypes to K&R-C code, and want to know
    about cases where `foo (char)' is actually `foo (int)' in absense of
    prototypes.

Philipp

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#define NINODE  50              /* number of in core inodes */
#define NPROC   30              /* max number of processes */
 	-- Version 7 UNIX for PDP 11, /usr/include/sys/param.h