Re: [cc65] warnings int/char copying?

Hi!

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:16:37AM +0200, Johan Kotlinski wrote:
> I can't say it's an error of the compiler, but it made me a bit
> curious about what the philosophy is about warning for stuff like
> this? When and when not...

In general it's difficult to do these warnings right, especially in case of a
compiler that doesn't build explicit expression trees (like cc65). The problem
is, that in C there are no real "char values" because characters are
immediately promoted to integers. This is the reason, why

        sizeof ('a') == sizeof (int)

Because of the default promotions, an assignment

        char a = 'a';

is actually an assignment of an integer to a char variable. It is easy to see
why a rule like "warn if an integer is assigned to a char variable" won't
work. The more problematic cases could be sorted out by looking at the exact
expression, but as said above, this is a bit difficult in cc65, and I don't
expect the results to be satisfactory.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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