gcc 4.3.0, -Wconversion: assignment-by operators for shorter types

Andrew Pinski pinskia@gmail.com
Tue May 27 19:01:00 GMT 2008


On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Andriy Gapon <avg@icyb.net.ua> wrote:
> Thank you for the explanation! I didn't realize the difference.
>
> OTOH, do you think that those arithmetic warnings are practical (as opposed
> to being correct)?

I think so as the short int case has a defined overflow of the signed
short type that is SHRT_MAX + 1 is defined while INT_MAX + 1 is not.

-- Pinski



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