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Offline frankie

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Wrong warning for different signedness
« on: July 24, 2018, 12:04:10 PM »
Consider the following snippet:
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unsigned short a = 1;
unsigned long  b = 2;

if (a <= b)
printf("a <= b\n");
Will give the warning:
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C:\PELLESC\Bugs\Warning_bug.c(10): warning #2251: Operands of '<=' have types with different signedness: 'int' and 'unsigned long int'.
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Re: Wrong warning for different signedness
« Reply #1 on: July 24, 2018, 03:59:22 PM »
As designed. I'm not going to waste time on a corner case like this.
/Pelle

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Re: Wrong warning for different signedness
« Reply #2 on: July 25, 2018, 11:41:10 AM »
As designed.
I understand that this is not a major issue in this phase.
But I can't understand why is by design  :(.
Both values are unsigned, why the signedness mismatch complain?  :(
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