[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:
> Martin Mathieson wrote:
>
> > Does anyone know of a gcc flag we can add to catch cases like this?  It 
> > (obviously) compiled clean on my work machine.
>
> I have a vague memory that newer versions of GCC (4.2?  4.3?) might have 
> a -W flag to catch implicit narrowing conversations, but I didn't see 
> anything obvious in the 4.3 manual; I might instead be remembering a 
> discussion that adding support for this would be a good idea, such as
>
> 	http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~wychen/cs261/proposal.htm

If Figure 1 is really a problem then my understanding of C just went out 
the window...