Hi Segher,
On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 04:27:28PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2021 at 05:44:00AM +0900, Stafford Horne wrote:
> > You have defined of_get_cpu_hwid to return u64, will this create compiler
> > warnings when since we are storing a u64 into a u32?
> >
> > It seems only if we make with W=3.
>
> Yes. This is done by -Wconversion, "Warn for implicit conversions that
> may alter a value."
Yeah, that is what I found out when I looked into it.
> > I thought we usually warned on this.
>
> This warning is not in -Wall or -Wextra either, it suffers too much from
> false positives. It is very natural to just ignore the high bits of
> modulo types (which is what "unsigned" types *are*). Or the bits that
> "fall off" on a conversion. The C standard makes this required
> behaviour, it is useful, and it is the only convenient way of getting
> this!
Thanks for the background, It does make sense. I guess I was confused with java
which requires casting when you store to a smaller size. I.e.
Test.java:5: error: incompatible types: possible lossy conversion from int to short
s = i;
-Stafford
