Bug#226952: [PR 13945] -Wconversion behaviour

["David N. Welton" <davidw@dedasys.com>]

Matthias Klose wrote:
> Upstream wrote:
>
> I think we may close this bug report since either:
>
> * The solution is to split the functionality of Wconversion as conceived by the
> Wcoercion project http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Wcoercion#Background. In that case,
> this is a duplicate of bug 9072.
>
> * The message is misleading. Maybe it should say: passing arg 1 of 'func' as
> short instead of 'int' due to prototype. If you agree, I can generate a patch
> in no time.
>
> * This is not a bug. As said in comment 5, Wconversion is meant to warn about
> conversions that would be different in the absence of prototypes. So we may
> just close the bug.

Ugh... I didn't even recall I'd submitted this.  I'm sure I must have 
run into it 'in the wild' with some other code, and thus had a reason to 
have noticed it being annoying, but I can't recall where.

You're the expert, I trust you to figure out the best thing to do:-) 
Try and approach both the behavior and docs from the point of view of 
someone with less familiarity with the system, though.

Thankyou,
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David N. Welton
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