dom/canvas has enabled -Werror=implicit-int-conversion since 68! :)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540357

On Fri, Jul 5, 2019 at 11:15 AM Chris Peterson <cpeter...@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
> On 7/5/2019 10:39 AM, Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
> >> FWIW once in a while I have come across bugs caused by truncation of
> >> integers where someone picked a specific size that was too small also,
> >> e.g.
> >> storing an offset into a text node in a 16-bit integer.  I think that's
> >> maybe something that's hiding between the lines there, being careful with
> >> that direction also if you pick a type with a specific size to make sure
> >> your type is large enough.
> >
> > Yep. Recent example: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556019 .
>
> If integer truncation bugs are something we're really concerned about,
> clang 8 added a new -Wimplicit-int-conversion (and
> -Wimplicit-float-conversion) warning. Unfortunately, there are a couple
> thousand instances of these warnings in mozilla-central. I don't know if
> fixing them is practical, but they could be selectively enabled (or
> disabled) for individual directories.
>
> https://clang.llvm.org/docs/DiagnosticsReference.html#wimplicit-int-conversion
>
> warning: higher order bits are zeroes after implicit conversion
> warning: implicit conversion loses integer precision: A to B
>
> warning: implicit conversion loses floating-point precision: A to B
> warning: implicit conversion when assigning computation result loses
> floating-point precision: A to B
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