Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 15:46:36 -0400 (EDT) From: Larry Lile <lile@stdio.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Question about -Wchar-subscripts Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10010031536460.75472-100000@heathers.stdio.com>
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I was just asked a question that I really don't know what the "correct"
answer is, so here it is.
...we get scores of warnings about using characters as
subscripts to an array (-Wchar-subscripts), which generates
so much noise as to mask real warnings burried within. Therefore,
I would like to suppress this warning unless someone can explain
why using a char as an array subscript is in any way an illegitimate
thing to do. As far as I can tell, getting rid of the warning by
changing the code would require adding a large number of frivolous
casts to scores of source files...
So why is using a "char" as an array subscript wrong? I had always
avoided it because the compiler complained and that was good enough
for me.
Just curious.
--
Larry Lile
lile@stdio.com
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