On 10/24/08 2:22 PM, Jason Coco said: >On Oct 24, 2008, at 14:10 , Don Arnel wrote: > >> I was just looking through some code that I wrote, and noticed I had >> changed a float to an int in my header file but I was still >> assigning float values to it in the code. The odd thing was that the >> compiler was not complaining about it. Which warning is it that I >> need to turn on in the compiler settings? I've looked through all >> the warning options but can't seem to find it. I'm using Xcode >> 3.1.1, GCC 4.0. > >It's perfectly legal to cast a float to an integer... the integral >portion is always maintained and the remainder is simply truncated. I >can't really think of a reason to warn about this, which is probably >why no such warning exists.
Perfectly legal, but often unintended. A reason to warn is that information is lost. CodeWarrior has 2 independent warnings for this: float to integer and integer to float. I've looked, but I don't think gcc has this. -- ____________________________________________________________ Sean McBride, B. Eng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rogue Research www.rogue-research.com Mac Software Developer Montréal, Québec, Canada _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
