On 15.10.16 19:19, Jeff King wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2016 at 07:03:46PM +0200, Torsten Bögershausen wrote: > >> sequencer.c:633:14: warning: comparison of constant 2 with expression of type 'const enum todo_command' is always true [-Wtautological-constant-out-of-range-compare] >> if (command < ARRAY_SIZE(todo_command_strings)) >> ~~~~~~~ ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> 1 warning generated. >> >> 53f8024e (Johannes Schindelin 2016-10-10 19:25:07 +0200 633) if (command < ARRAY_SIZE(todo_command_strings)) >> > > Interesting. The compiler is right that this _should_ never happen, but > I think the patch is quite reasonable to be defensive in case the enum > happens to get a value outside of its acceptable range (which is > probably undefined behavior, but...). > > I wonder if: > > if ((int)command < ARRAY_SIZE(todo_command_strings)) > > silences the warning (I suppose size_t is probably an even better type, > though obviously it does not matter in practice). > > -Peff > Both do (silence the warning) enum may be signed or unsigned, right ? So the size_t variant seams to be a better choice