[Python-Dev] Compiler warnings
Thomas Wouters
thomas at xs4all.net
Wed Feb 1 22:34:22 CET 2006
On Wed, Feb 01, 2006 at 10:15:15AM -0500, Tim Peters wrote:
> Thomas, for these _PyLong_AsScaledDouble()-caller cases, I suggest doing
> whatever obvious thing manages to silence the warning. For example, in
> PyLong_AsDouble:
>
> int e = -1; /* silence gcc warning */
>
> and then add:
>
> assert(e >= 0);
>
> after the call.
Done, although it was nowhere near obvious to me that -1 would be a sane
sentinel value ;) Not that I don't believe you, but it took some actual
reading of _PyLong_AsScaledDouble to confirm it.
Reading--imagine-that-ly y'rs,
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