Hello Martin, the reason is given in the manual: -Wno-div-by-zero Do not warn about compile-time integer division by zero. Floating point division by zero is not warned about, as it can be a legitimate way of obtaining infinities and NaNs. So you should obtain a warning with "foo(4,0)", but not with "foo(4.,0)" Axel On Sun, Jun 21, 2009 at 03:10:34PM +0200, Martin Ettl wrote: > Hello, > > yes, i have tried -O , -O1 , -O2, -O3 and no warning is raised by g++. > > Best regards > > Martin > > -------- Original-Nachricht -------- > > Datum: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 08:34:50 -0400 > > Von: John Fine <johnsfine@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > An: Martin Ettl <ettl.martin@xxxxxx> > > CC: gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Betreff: Re: why does g++ not warn about division by zero? > > > Have you tried that at various optimization levels? > > > > At lower optimization levels, the "inline" keyword should not cause the > > function to actually get inlined. > > > > If the function is not actually inlined, gcc cannot be aware of the > > divide by zero. > > > > I don't happen to know whether gcc would warn if it were aware of the > > divide by zero, nor if actually inlining is sufficient to make it > > aware. I'm just saying actually inlining should be necessary to make it > > aware of the divide by zero. > > > > Martin Ettl wrote: > > > template <typename T1, typename T2> inline T1 foo (T1 const& a, T2 > > const& b) > > > { > > > // .... > > > return a/b; > > > } > > > > > > int main() > > > { > > > std::cout << foo(4.,0) << std::endl; > > > return 0; > > > } > > > > > > I compiled the testprogramm with following command: > > > g++ -W -Wall -pedantic -o test test.cpp > > > > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01 > > -- > GRATIS für alle GMX-Mitglieder: Die maxdome Movie-FLAT! > Jetzt freischalten unter http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/maxdome01