C macro _Generic gives unexpected compiler error

Using gcc.exe (Rev3, Built by MSYS2 project) 8.2.0.

I was trying to build a macro to automatically do type conversions between two types, where the two parameters should never be the same type. My problem is the compiler throws an error if I don't also include the same type case. What I wanted:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>
// Macro to return string based on two different types
#define bob( to, from ) \
    _Generic( to , \
    int32_t: _Generic(from,  \
      int16_t: "s-l", \
      int8_t:  "c-l" ) , \
    int16_t: _Generic(from, \
      int32_t: "l-s", \
      int8_t:  "c-s") , \
    int8_t:_Generic(from, \
      int32_t: "l-c",  \
      int16_t: "s-c")  \
    )

    void main(void)
    {
        int32_t i1;
        int16_t s1;
        int8_t  c1;

        printf("%s\n", bob(i1,s1));
        printf("%s\n", bob(i1,c1));
        printf("%s\n", bob(s1,c1));
        printf("%s\n", bob(s1,i1));
        printf("%s\n", bob(c1,s1));
        printf("%s\n", bob(c1,s1));

    }

$ gcc gbug.c -o gbug.exe
gbug.c: In function 'main':
gbug.c:23:27: error: '_Generic' selector of type 'short int' is not compatible with any association
     printf("%s\n", bob(i1,s1));
                           ^~
gbug.c:9:19: note: in definition of macro 'bob'
 int16_t: _Generic(from, \
                   ^~~~
gbug.c:24:27: error: '_Generic' selector of type 'signed char' is not compatible with any association
     printf("%s\n", bob(i1,c1));
                           ^~
gbug.c:12:17: note: in definition of macro 'bob'
 int8_t:_Generic(from, \
                 ^~~~
gbug.c:25:27: error: '_Generic' selector of type 'signed char' is not compatible with any association
     printf("%s\n", bob(s1,c1));
                           ^~
gbug.c:12:17: note: in definition of macro 'bob'
 int8_t:_Generic(from, \
                 ^~~~
gbug.c:26:27: error: '_Generic' selector of type 'int' is not compatible with any association
     printf("%s\n", bob(s1,i1));
                           ^~
gbug.c:6:19: note: in definition of macro 'bob'
 int32_t: _Generic(from,  \
                   ^~~~
gbug.c:27:27: error: '_Generic' selector of type 'short int' is not compatible with any association
     printf("%s\n", bob(c1,s1));
                           ^~
gbug.c:9:19: note: in definition of macro 'bob'
 int16_t: _Generic(from, \
                   ^~~~
gbug.c:28:27: error: '_Generic' selector of type 'short int' is not compatible with any association
     printf("%s\n", bob(c1,s1));
                           ^~
gbug.c:9:19: note: in definition of macro 'bob'
 int16_t: _Generic(from, \

This example is the simplest that I have found that will fail.

If I add in the "same type" conversion lines like this:

#define bob( to, from ) \
_Generic( to , \
int32_t: _Generic(from,  \
  int16_t: "s-l", \
  int32_t: "bug", \
  int8_t: "c-l" ) , \
int16_t: _Generic(from, \
  int32_t: "l-s", \
  int16_t: "bug", \
  int8_t: "c-s") , \
int8_t:_Generic(from, \
  int32_t: "l-c",  \
  int8_t: "bug", \
  int16_t: "s-c")  \
)

It build and runs with the expected result:

$ ./gbug.exe
s-l
c-l
c-s
l-s
s-c
s-c

verifying that I am not using the macro to expand any same type conditions. I understand _Generic is not a string substitution macro but I also thought that if you could use it without a default case it would correctly throw a compile error if you used an unknown type (or an unsupported combination of types, which is the behaviour I wanted) It is like the pre-processor is getting the two macro parameters mixed up.

Edit: So I have a better understanding, (See my answer below) but still looking to get the macro to throw a compile error if the two parameters are the same type. So far I have a trick to force a link error which is still better than a runtime error.