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-Wextra is total insanity. I just compiled some C code I've been working on with that flag, and got the following: "warning: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression." I was testing if a variable I declared as an integer was less than 0. To my knowledge, every number literal in C is assumed to be of a signed type unless followed by a 'u'. But now I know better. 0 is the exception.


Are you sure?

    $ echo 'int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (argc < 0) { return 1; } else {return 0;}}' > test.c
    $ gcc -v
    Using built-in specs.
    Target: x86_64-linux-gnu
    Configured with: ../src/configure -v --with-pkgversion='Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5' --with-bugurl=file:///usr/share/doc/gcc-4.4/README.Bugs --enable-languages=c,c++,fortran,objc,obj-c++ --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --enable-multiarch --enable-linker-build-id --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib --without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.4 --program-suffix=-4.4 --enable-nls --enable-clocale=gnu --enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-plugin --enable-objc-gc --disable-werror --with-arch-32=i486 --with-tune=generic --enable-checking=release --build=x86_64-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-linux-gnu --target=x86_64-linux-gnu
    Thread model: posix
    gcc version 4.4.3 (Ubuntu 4.4.3-4ubuntu5) 
    $ gcc -Wall -Wextra test.c
    test.c: In function ‘main’:
    test.c:1: warning: unused parameter ‘argv’
    $
gcc-4.3.4 behaved the same way in my test.




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