Roman Zippel wrote:
> > 3. Warning added to GCC for signed vs. unsigned comparisons
> > _regardless_ of type size. This would also catch erroneous
> > unsigned char vs. EOF checks in misuses of stdio.
>
> Do you know of such bug in the context of min()?
I don't know of an actual example. This one is made up:
min (int, len, big_size)
Now if big_size has unsigned type, and does not fit in the range of int,
this expression will return the value of big_size cast to int, i.e. a
negative value. The suggested warning would catch this potential bug.
I don't know if it would warn for too many other things. Certainly, a
sizeof() exception (don't warn about signed comparison with sizeof()
result) is essential; perhaps too many other exceptions are required
too.
-- Jamie
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