On Mon, 30 Jun 2014, Marek Polacek wrote: > This patch adds the -Wincompatible-pointer-types option for a warning > we already have, so it's possible to suppress this specific warning, or > use it with -Werror= and so on. > As a followup change, I'm considering printing the types of the pointers; > saying merely e.g. "assignment from incompatible pointer type" seems to be too > austere. (We say "expected T but argument is of type U" when passing > arguments.) > This is for C/ObjC only, since in C++, we'd issue "cannot convert" error. > > Bootstrapped/regtested on x86_64-linux, ok for trunk?
OK with the documentation amended to make clear this is for the cases not covered by -Wno-pointer-sign (which in ISO C terms are just as incompatible as the cases covered by the new option). -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
