Re: Warning in geqo_main.c from clang 13 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Warning in geqo_main.c from clang 13
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Msg-id 1497684.1642890856@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Warning in geqo_main.c from clang 13  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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I wrote:
> Thomas Munro <thomas.munro@gmail.com> writes:
>> Clang 13 on my machine and peripatus (but not Apple clang 13 on eg
>> sifika, I'm still confused about Apple's versioning but I think that's
>> really llvm 12-based) warns:
>> geqo_main.c:86:8: warning: variable 'edge_failures' set but not used
>> [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>> Here's one way to silence it.

> I'm kind of inclined to just drop the edge_failures recording/logging
> altogether, rather than make that rats-nest of #ifdefs even worse.
> It's not like anyone has cared about that number in the last decade
> or two.

We're starting to see more buildfarm animals producing this warning,
so I took another look, and thought of a slightly less invasive way to
silence it.  I confirmed this works with clang 13.0.0 on Fedora 35.

            regards, tom lane

diff --git a/src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_main.c b/src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_main.c
index 333a26a695..68ed74325c 100644
--- a/src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_main.c
+++ b/src/backend/optimizer/geqo/geqo_main.c
@@ -227,12 +227,17 @@ geqo(PlannerInfo *root, int number_of_rels, List *initial_rels)
     }


-#if defined(ERX) && defined(GEQO_DEBUG)
+#if defined(ERX)
+#if defined(GEQO_DEBUG)
     if (edge_failures != 0)
         elog(LOG, "[GEQO] failures: %d, average: %d",
              edge_failures, (int) number_generations / edge_failures);
     else
         elog(LOG, "[GEQO] no edge failures detected");
+#else
+    /* suppress variable-set-but-not-used warnings from some compilers */
+    (void) edge_failures;
+#endif
 #endif

 #if defined(CX) && defined(GEQO_DEBUG)

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