Re: patch to fix unused variable warning on windows build

On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 7:29 PM, Amit Kapila <amit(dot)kapila16(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 11:43 AM, David Rowley <dgrowleyml(at)gmail(dot)com>
> wrote:
> > Attached is a small patch which fixes the unused variable warning in the
> > visual studios build. Seems like VS does not support
> > __attribute__((unused)) but looks like all other places we must assign to
> > the variable.
>
> I have raised same issue some time back, see the below link where
> there is some discussion about it.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/message-id/CAA4eK1JEOa1hJGAUwPcqhw8av7zAPkDxJdwUbwEtjomi2f8hFg@mail.gmail.com
>
>
Thanks for the link.
The reason that we don't see more warnings for this is that it seems in all
other places where we have used PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY, the variable is
getting assigned to every time, though it will only be when compiled in
debug that the variable is checked. It seems microsoft decided to disable
warnings for assigned but not used for pretty much this reason.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10593547/why-is-no-warning-given-for-this-unused-variable

"Microsoft explain that it's because they had lots of complaints from
people who were assigning variables purely so they could see what a method
call returned during debugging, and found the warning irritating:"

So I guess fixing up PG_USED_FOR_ASSERTS_ONLY to work with visual studios
is not required and my patch seems like the fix for this unique case.

> I think it is good, if one of committer's who have windows env. can
> look into it and commit or provide suggestions, else you can make a
> combined patch of this and other warning you saw on windows and upload
> to next CF so that it doesn't get lost.
> I checked that you have already submitted a patch for this warning
> alone in CF.
>
>
I was not quite sure what I should do for these tiny patches. Quite often
if a committer happens to read the post and agrees with the patch then it
might get committed pretty quickly even outside a commitfest, but if not
then if I didn't add to the commitfest then it would likely get lost.

Regards

David Rowley

> With Regards,
> Amit Kapila.
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>