http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=59976
Bug ID: 59976 Summary: Spurious warning on converting const int variable to unsigned long Product: gcc Version: 4.9.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org Reporter: chengniansun at gmail dot com I define a static global variable "g" of type "const int", with a value 0. When assigning it to a variable of type unsigned long, Gcc emits a warning on the signedness conversion. As "g" is not modifiable and equivalent to "0", there is no signedness conversion actually. $: cat s.c static const int g = 0; void fn() { unsigned long l = g; } $: gcc-trunk -c -Wconversion s.c s.c: In function ‘fn’: s.c:3:3: warning: conversion to ‘long unsigned int’ from ‘int’ may change the sign of the result [-Wsign-conversion] unsigned long l = g; ^ $: gcc-trunk -v Using built-in specs. COLLECT_GCC=gcc-trunk COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/home/chengniansun/tools/gcc-trunk-binaries/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/4.9.0/lto-wrapper Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Configured with: ../gcc-trunk/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib --prefix=/home/chengniansun/tools/gcc-trunk-binaries : (reconfigured) ../gcc-trunk/configure --enable-languages=c,c++ --disable-multilib --prefix=/home/chengniansun/tools/gcc-trunk-binaries Thread model: posix gcc version 4.9.0 20140127 (experimental) (GCC) $: $: clang-trunk -c -Wconversion s.c $: