Re: [Gnucap-devel] "unused" branch

[Felix Salfelder]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 10:17:32PM -0400, al davis wrote:
> This branch contains a "bug fix", fixing a warning about an 
> unused variable.
> 
> The warning shows when using a custom set of build options .. in 
> particular, extra warnings ON (-Wall), asserts OFF (-DNDEBUG).
> [..]
> In these cases, the warning doesn't show.

i sometimes do partial builds. touch e_compon.cc; make
CPPFLAGS=-DDO_TRACE. yes, this is "custom". enabling traces globally
does not make much sense to me.

> In the case where the claimed warning shows, there are lots of 
> other similar ones that also show.

i didn't see any, likely because i only touched one file. this one
annoyed me, so i quickly "fixed" it.

> It's something I have known about forever, back to when it was 
> written, and didn't consider it to be a problem.

not a big problem indeed.

cheers
felix