http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47742
--- Comment #3 from Manuel López-Ibáñez <manu at gcc dot gnu.org> 2011-02-15 23:16:09 UTC --- Let me try again: I think GCC (>= 4.4) should catch this using -Wconversion if you drop the explicit cast like in: long infc = LONG_MAX; double real_size = infc; Doesn't it?