Re: [PATCH] Fix warnings from gcc 4.1.1

[Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>]

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 15:13 -0400, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > Indeed, that's a bug number 26632:
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=26632
> > Nobody is arguing that it's a feature.
> 
> That's a bit too optimistic in my reading.  As I read it, they
> want to keep the warning for explicit casts, but drop it for
> casts that the gcc front end decides to insert itself.

Now I understand why 27825 is a duplicate of 26632!

> I'm sure they mean well, but this warning is getting in the way
> of lots of people doing stuff with macros.

OK, I didn't search well enough.  This issue is bug 24900, which is
marked "WONTFIX".  It's interesting that the statement expression is
proposed as a workaround - exactly what Linus did!

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24900

The argument that statement expressions are not portable has been
ignored so far.

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin