https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62181
--- Comment #16 from Xi Ruoyao <xry111 at mengyan1223 dot wang> --- (In reply to Jonathan Wakely from comment #15) > Was this question ever answered? > https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2017-06/msg01337.html Oh that's intentional. This would make this warning more useful, while most people won't use a "char" to address an array or something like. For example, if someone has wrote a string-like class but forgot to overload operator+=, this warning will detect it when he writes "char c = getchar(); buggy_string t = s + c;". And for something like "char *p = s; char x; scanf("%hhd", &x); p = p + x;" 1. In C++ __INT8_TYPE__ is not __CHAR_TYPE__ so there will be no warning. He can use "int8_t x;" instead of "char x;". 2. He can use p = &p[x], which is more clear and nobody will think this is an append. I remember I wrote a response, with an option to split this into -Wstring-plus-int=1 and -Wstring-plus-int=2. But why it wasn't sent? I can't remember.
