[Cython] GCC 4.6 unused-but-set-variable warnings

[Vitja Makarov]

2011/8/2 Vitja Makarov <vitja.makarov at gmail.com>:
> 2011/7/29 Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml at behnel.de>:
>> Vitja Makarov, 29.07.2011 10:55:
>>>
>>> 2011/7/29 Stefan Behnel<stefan_ml at behnel.de>:
>>>>
>>>> Vitja Makarov, 29.07.2011 10:44:
>>>>>
>>>>> 2011/7/29 Stefan Behnel:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Vitja Makarov, 29.07.2011 10:08:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> this issue isn't critical and even isn't a bug at all.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Agreed. It's nothing that needs to be done for 0.15. I just thought you
>>>>>> might be interested. :D
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yeah, I tried to do this once but I've found some problems with buffer
>>>>> variables.
>>>>>
>>>>> What to do about local variables:
>>>>>
>>>>> def foo():
>>>>>     a = 1
>>>>>
>>>>> 'a' is unused here
>>>>
>>>> That's up to the user to fix. However, there may be restrictions
>>>> regarding
>>>> the signature (inheritance etc.) that the users cannot control, so unused
>>>> *parameters* must not produce warnings.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Sure. Because of that there is separate warn.unused_args option :)
>>
>> With the caveat that gcc 4.6 produces a warning with -Wall for them, because
>> it cannot know that they originally were parameters in the Cython code.
>>
>
>
> I tried to implement this for c[p]def functions:
>
> For required args I've added CYTHON_UNUSED qualifier and removed
> unused optionals.
>


Stefan, do you know why skip_dispatch argument is used for
module-level cpdef function?

There is warning about that too.

-- 
vitja.