On Mon, Feb 25, 2019 at 11:42 AM Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote: > > >>> On 22.02.19 at 22:33, <andrew.coop...@citrix.com> wrote: > > P.S. There is a solution here which could work, but IMO a better use of > > time and energy would be to get MISRA to update their rules to match > > this century, and stop getting in the way of compiler features intended > > to help the programmer avoid bugs. > > As much as I'm with you in desiring the compiler aid given to not get > undermined, I think this MISRA rule isn't in need of modernizing: It's > one thing for the compiler to help with in-range enumerators, and it's > another to demand that unintentional out-of-range ones don't cause > actual harm (like crashing your car into the next tree). This is even > more so that iirc there's no warning if you pass a plain integer into a > function whose parameter specifies an enum, or if you assign a plain > integer to an enum types variable.
FWIW I was thinking the same thing. -George _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org https://lists.xenproject.org/mailman/listinfo/xen-devel
