Frank Mehnert wrote: > uint32_t bar; > uint64_t foo; > ... > foo = bar << 20; [...] >I think it would be a big help if gcc could warn in the 2nd case. What if the overflow / truncation is intended? Consider re-ordering bytes... >What do you think? Or is such a warning already available? I'm Usually I don't care about compiler warnings because I use (PC-) Lint. Lint is much better suited to warn me, because I can control warnings. Oliver
