On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 14:10 -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote: > On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 12:11:27PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > -Wconstant-conversion is only issued when a *constant value* is assigned to > an incompatible type. > > > Trying to allow a "make W=3" to be compiler warning message free > > is also silly. > > > > I think it's better to make the warning emitted only at a W=3 > > level instead. > > Another difference with -Wsign-conversion is that enabling it would > probably result in thousands of warnings. Do you have evidence that > there is a significant number of spurious -Wconstant-conversion > warnings? Not my issue really. You're advocating for making the code more complex/ugly for a condition where the result is identical. Do you have evidence this is the only location in an allyesconfig compilation?
