Re: [Emacs-diffs] master 8e2b2a2: Minor cleanup in pdumper.c

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: address@hidden
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2019 23:24:29 -0800
> 
> Daniel Colascione wrote:
> >> Thanks, I had forgotten about timespectod. I installed the attached. Yay, 
> >> one 
> >> less use of ALLOW_IMPLICIT_CONVERSION, a macro I'm not a fan of.
> > 
> > It beats trying to debug silent integral truncation problems without 
> > compiler 
> > help. IMHO, it was a mistake for C to allow silent destructive narrowing 
> > conversion.
> 
> In my experience the warning is more trouble than it's worth in Emacs source 
> code, as its signal-to-noise ratio is too large there. There are no free 
> lunches 
> in software development, and this particular lunch goes waaayyy over budget.

The C language is for people who know what they are doing.  It would
be IMO unacceptable for it to reject assignments of a double value to
an int, or even warn by default about it, because any serious
numerical program does that all the time.