-Wunused-but-set-variable warnings

Matthias Fuchs mat69 at gmx.net
Mon Jul 4 22:05:19 BST 2011


Am Montag 04 Juli 2011, 20:07:20 schrieb Albert Astals Cid:
> A Monday, July 04, 2011, Dawit A va escriure:
> > The following files all contain set but unused variables:
> > 
> > snip
> > 
> > Unlike the -Wunused-parameter fixing this warning messages requires
> > context because the variable may be set and unused due to a mistake
> > that can potentially be causing a bug. As such can kdelibs cmake file
> > be changed to error out, -Werror=unused-but-set-variable, for such
> > warnings ?
> 
> You really want to make kdelibs uncompilable?
> 
> Albert

Indeed. IIRC in some cases the public API has unused members. Removing them 
could lead to ABI problems.




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