Re: Preventing warnings in FIXNUM_OVERFLOW_P

[Richard Stallman]

    > That is a bad solution.  Turning off this warning globally risks
    > missing other places where there is a real problem.  The right
    > solution is a way to turn off the warning _only in this construct_.

    But this argument is applicable to _every_ warning GCC is programmed
    to emit!

For most kinds of warnings, there is a way you can avoid the warning
by writing the code carefully.  I think there should be a convenient
way to avoid this warning too.