`better conversion sequence' warning -W name?

[Phil Edwards]

On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 07:35:42PM -0400, Alexy Khrabrov wrote:
> MMS_EntryImpl.C: In method `MMS_EntryImpl::MMS_EntryImpl(PortableServer::POA *, const char *)':
> MMS_EntryImpl.C:48: warning: choosing `PortableServer::ObjectId_var::operator PortableServer::ObjectId &()' over `PortableServer::ObjectId_var::operator const PortableServer::ObjectId &() const'
> MMS_EntryImpl.C:48: warning:   for conversion from `PortableServer::ObjectId_var' to `const PortableServer::ObjectId &'
> MMS_EntryImpl.C:48: warning:   because conversion sequence for the argument is bette
> 
> I've tried -Wno-conversion, but that's not it.  Anybody knows whether that 
> warning has a name?

It doesn't.  The only way to kill that annoying text is by turning off
all warnings with -w.

We've been talking over this for at least two years.  (That was when I made
a bid to give the warning a name:

    http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2000-06/msg00187.html

but it never went further, modulo comments on the spelling.)


Phil

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