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bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings
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Andy Moreton |
Subject: |
bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Jun 2016 13:05:09 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.94 (windows-nt) |
On Wed 01 Jun 2016, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 06/01/2016 01:37 PM, Richard Stallman wrote:
>> A macro UNUSED_LISP could handle the first.
>
> Yes, we could have separate macros for each data type requiring syntactically
> different initializers. Something like this, say:
>
> int n UNUSED_0;
> Lisp_Object obj UNUSED_Qnil;
>
> instead of the current:
>
> int n IF_LINT (= 0);
> Lisp_Object obj IF_LINT (= Qnil);
>
> We could easily change the code in that way. Is it worth the trouble?
>
>> What is the reason for writing IF_LINT (volatile)
>> instead of just volatile?
>
> Primarily, to tell the reader that the 'volatile' is not needed for
> correctness; it's present only to pacify a buggy compiler or lint checker. (In
> this case, it pacifies GCC; see GCC bug#54561.) It's basically the same reason
> the code uses 'IF_LINT (= 0)' rather than '= 0'.
Adding more macros that cruft up the source code to deal with a buggy
compiler warning is silly. If the warning is broken and does not
operate correctly, then do not enable that warning.
AndyM
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Paul Eggert, 2016/06/01
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Richard Stallman, 2016/06/01
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Paul Eggert, 2016/06/01
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings,
Andy Moreton <=
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Richard Stallman, 2016/06/02
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Paul Eggert, 2016/06/06
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Richard Stallman, 2016/06/07
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Paul Eggert, 2016/06/07
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Richard Stallman, 2016/06/08
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Paul Eggert, 2016/06/08
- bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings, Richard Stallman, 2016/06/08