Re: [PATCH] s390 (7/13): gcc 3.3 adaptions.

Richard Henderson (rth@twiddle.net)
Fri, 28 Feb 2003 19:12:53 -0800


On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 01:02:39PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Does gcc still warn about things like
>
> #define COUNT (sizeof(array)/sizeof(element))
>
> int i;
> for (i = 0; i < COUNT; i++)
> ...
>
> where COUNT is obviously unsigned (because sizeof is size_t and thus
> unsigned)?

Yes. We don't do complete value-range propagation to figure
out if a warning is needed. We only look at the comparison
itself and note that one of the arguments changed signedness
due to forced promotions.

r~
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