On 07/27/2018 03:58 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
On 07/27/2018 04:50 PM, Julio Faracco wrote:
After some recent patches, clang is throwing some errors related to unused variables. This is not happening when we use GCC with -Werror enabled. Only clang reports this warning.
make[3]: Entering directory '/home/julio/Desktop/virt/libvirt/src' CC util/libvirt_util_la-virscsivhost.lo CC util/libvirt_util_la-virusb.lo CC util/libvirt_util_la-virmdev.lo util/virmdev.c:373:36: error: unused variable 'ret' [-Werror,-Wunused-variable] VIR_AUTOPTR(virMediatedDevice) ret = virMediatedDeviceListSteal(list, dev); ^
clang is buggy. The variable 'ret' is very much in use, as the VIR_AUTOPTR() macro cannot work unless you attach it to a local variable to operate on when that variable goes out of scope. You should file a bug report against clang. But in the meantime,
<sigh>, see:
https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2018-July/msg01917.html
Seems like it's the same thing and we should be consistent in the manner in which we resolve.
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