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

[Daniel Colascione]

On 1/22/19 8:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 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.

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