Downcasting

[Fabrice Medio]

Hello !

One of my colleagues noticed that gcc didn't check for implicit
downcastings. 

Look at this :

~/tmp$ cat Foobar.java
class Foobar { char func(int i) { return i; } }

Sun compilers obviously refuse to compile :

/tmp$ javac Foobar.java
Foobar.java:2: possible loss of precision
found   : int
required: char
class Foobar { char func(int i) { return i; } }
                                         ^
1 error


On the contrary, gcj remains silent :

~/tmp$ gcj -C -Wall Foobar.java
~/tmp$ 

Is this a bug or a feature ?

Fabrice


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