Signed-unsigned comparison question

2019-03-07 Thread Zoltan Kocsi
Gcc 8.2.0 (arm-none-eabi) throws a warning on the following construct: uint32_t a; uint16_t b; if ( a > b ) ... compaining that a signed integer is compared against an unsigned. Of course, it is correct, as 'b' was promoted to int. But shouldn't it be smart enough to know that (int) b is restri

Re: Signed-unsigned comparison question

2019-03-07 Thread Zoltan Kocsi
Correction: The construct gcc complains about is not if ( a < b ) ... but if ( a < b - ( b >> 2 ) ) ... but still the same applies. The RHS of the > operator can never be negative or have an overflow on 32 bits. On Fri, 8 Mar 2019 10:40:06 +1100 Zoltan Kocsi wrote: > G