https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=99317
Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |msebor at gcc dot gnu.org Resolution|--- |WONTFIX Status|UNCONFIRMED |RESOLVED See Also| |https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzill | |a/show_bug.cgi?id=44209 --- Comment #4 from Martin Sebor <msebor at gcc dot gnu.org> --- To expand on Andrew's comment: The C rules specify the type of the result of operator ?: when either of the second and third operands is a pointer to void, but they do no specify the result type when the operands are pointers to incompatible types (like int* and float*). The warning points out the latter. The C++ rules, OTOH, are more restrictive and make the ?: expression valid only when the types of the arguments can be implicitly converted to one another. Since in C++ a pointer to void isn't implicitly convertible to a pointer to an object type all the expressions in the test case are invalid. In C mode, the -Wc++-compat option helps detect C/C++ incompatibilities and detects this problem (below). So with that, since the problem is diagnosed under the right option, I think this report can be resolved as WONTFIX. (That the warning in comment #0 is issued unconditionally and not under the control of a specific option, is a separate problem tracked in in bug 44209.) $ gcc -S -Wall -Wc++-compat pr99317.c pr99317.c: In function ‘foo’: pr99317.c:3:17: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘float *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 3 | float * f = v; | ^ pr99317.c:4:15: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘int *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 4 | int * i = w; | ^ pr99317.c:5:19: warning: pointer type mismatch in conditional expression 5 | return (x ? f : i); | ^ pr99317.c:5:19: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘int *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 5 | return (x ? f : i); | ~~~~~~~^~~~ pr99317.c: In function ‘foo1’: pr99317.c:10:17: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘float *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 10 | float * f = v; | ^ pr99317.c:11:15: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘int *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 11 | int * i = w; | ^ pr99317.c:12:19: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘int *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 12 | return (1 ? f : (void *)i); | ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~ pr99317.c: In function ‘bar’: pr99317.c:16:17: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘float *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 16 | float * f = v; | ^ pr99317.c:17:15: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘int *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 17 | int * i = w; | ^ pr99317.c:18:19: warning: request for implicit conversion from ‘void *’ to ‘int *’ not permitted in C++ [-Wc++-compat] 18 | return (x ? f : (void *)i); | ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~