------- Additional Comments From joseph at codesourcery dot com 2005-03-19 12:02 ------- Subject: Re: New: Silencing the warning: comparison is always true due to limited range of data type
On Sat, 19 Mar 2005, qrczak at knm dot org dot pl wrote: > It would be nice if the warning "comparison is always true due to limited > range > of data type" could be turned off. From looking at the gcc source I conclude > it > can't. I couldn't find a workaround which generates the same code (casting the > smaller type to the wider type just for the comparison doesn't silence the > warning, using a wider type for the variable generates worse code). I've suggesting moving this warning to an option -Wcomparison-fixed, not on by default and not in -Wall but included in -Wextra. See bug 12963. -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20550
