------- Additional Comments From salinger at sun dot felk dot cvut dot cz 2004-12-08 17:07 ------- Thanks for explanation.
The warning message was confusing for me. Could be possible to distinguish between NULL without pointer conversion and completely forgotten NULL ? With something like this: --- gcc/c-common.c.std Wed Dec 8 16:14:12 2004 +++ gcc/c-common.c Wed Dec 8 17:45:03 2004 @@ -5041,7 +5041,12 @@ /* Validate the sentinel. */ if (!POINTER_TYPE_P (TREE_TYPE (TREE_VALUE (sentinel))) || !integer_zerop (TREE_VALUE (sentinel))) - warning ("missing sentinel in function call"); + { + if (!integer_zerop (TREE_VALUE (sentinel))) + warning ("missing sentinel in function call"); + else + warning ("wrong sentinel in function call - NULL should be cast to appropriate pointer type"); + } } } } -- What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Severity|normal |enhancement Status|RESOLVED |UNCONFIRMED Keywords| |diagnostic Resolution|INVALID | Summary|attribute sentinel doesn't |misleading warning from |work with C++ |attribute sentinel in C++ http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18886