Re: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of data type

[Paul Eggert]

Jim Meyering <address@hidden> writes:

> "Oskar Liljeblad" <address@hidden> wrote:
>> What's the proper way to fix these warnings?
>>
>> quotearg.c: In function `quotearg_n_options':
>> quotearg.c:586: warning: comparison is always false due to limited range of
>> data type
>
> Paul, if you don't find a way to eliminate the warning by changing
> xalloc_oversized itself (I didn't), how about using this change?

Isn't that a cure that is worse than the disease?  That patch will
slow down the code on his platform, by causing the compiler to insert
a run-time check where it now does the check at compile-time (and can
therefore omit the call to xalloc_die ()).

My own experience is that that particular warning is more trouble
than it's worth.  Is there some easy way to ask GCC to not generate
that warning?