https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=96570
Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |egallager at gcc dot gnu.org --- Comment #6 from Eric Gallager <egallager at gcc dot gnu.org> --- (In reply to M Welinder from comment #2) > > Why? If somebody wants to be explicitly stupid, that's their prerogative. > > I agree with the second sentence. > > However, casts are not a clear indication that somebody wants to be > explicitly stupid, at least not in C++. If you were looking for such an > indication, my int(int64_t(...)) suggestion is probably closer. > > Casts occur also in (e.g.) overload resolution and entirely too often in > template soup. And in macros too, I guess. > This reminds me of bug 69818