Re: c/9072: -Wconversion should be split into two distinct flags

[Segher Boessenkool <segher@koffie.nl>]

The following reply was made to PR c/9072; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@koffie.nl>
To: Zack Weinberg <zack@codesourcery.com>
Cc: 128950@bugs.debian.org, gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org,
	gcc-gnats@gcc.gnu.org, debian-gcc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: c/9072: -Wconversion should be split into two distinct flags
Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2002 09:48:17 +0100

 Zack Weinberg wrote:
 > 
 > I'm very much in favor of making -Wconversion more useful, but is
 > there any reason not to shift the argument-type-conversion warnings
 > entirely over to -Wtraditional?  Particularly if the warning is
 > avoided for prototypes in system headers (so that 'sinf' and the like
 > raise no complaints) -- this would, for instance, catch the occasional
 > problem we have with arguments of type 'bool' in GCC itself.
 > 
 > Then -Wconversion would be entirely for dubious type conversions on
 > assignment.
 
 This is the intended behaviour of my patch, modulo in my opinion passing
 a "too wide" argument to a function is a dubious assignment, too.
 
 
 Segher