GCC - shouldn't a warning be issued when assigning an int to a char?

Question

I\'ve recently set up a MinGW + MSYS environment on my laptop to check how things are with Netbeans C/C++ support. Everything seems to work fine, however, during my testing

Answer 1

In C, assigning an int to a char is legal.

As it's legal (but possibly dodgy) the different compiler vendors do different things when they encounter this code.

I guess MS is just being extra pedantic while the GCC guys have decided that it's not even worth a warning.