https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=91179
Bug ID: 91179 Summary: Spurious -Wconversion warning after promotion Product: gcc Version: 7.4.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c++ Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: gennaro.prota+gccbugzilla at gmail dot com Target Milestone: --- Hi, this a reduced test case for: <https://github.com/gennaroprota/breath/commit/14dcd189a67fc48f6f275c7569610911fe8adae9>. It is similar to bug 88566. struct X { X() : m() {} unsigned char m[ 10 ] ; } ; int main() { X x ; unsigned char const a = x.m[ 0 ] >> 3 ; } Command line: g++ -Wconversion spurious_wconversion.cpp Compiler output: spurious_wconversion.cpp: In function ‘int main()’: spurious_wconversion.cpp:11:38: warning: conversion to ‘unsigned char’ from ‘int’ may alter its value [-Wconversion] unsigned char const a = x.m[ 0 ] >> 3 ; $ g++ -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=g++ COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/7.4.0/lto-wrapper.exe Target: x86_64-pc-cygwin Configured with: /cygdrive/i/szsz/tmpp/gcc/gcc-7.4.0-1.x86_64/src/gcc-7.4.0/configure --srcdir=/cygdrive/i/szsz/tmpp/gcc/gcc-7.4.0-1.x86_64/src/gcc-7.4.0 --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc --docdir=/usr/share/doc/gcc --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/gcc/html -C --build=x86_64-pc-cygwin --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin --target=x86_64-pc-cygwin --without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --libexecdir=/usr/lib --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc --enable-static --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-bootstrap --enable-__cxa_atexit --with-dwarf2 --with-tune=generic --enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,lto,objc,obj-c++ --enable-graphite --enable-threads=posix --enable-libatomic --enable-libcilkrts --enable-libgomp --enable-libitm --enable-libquadmath --enable-libquadmath-support --disable-libssp --enable-libada --disable-symvers --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as --with-cloog-include=/usr/include/cloog-isl --without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --with-system-zlib --enable-linker-build-id --with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --enable-libstdcxx-filesystem-ts Thread model: posix gcc version 7.4.0 (GCC)