Hi,
On 2018-02-15 12:19:46 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> While poking around in buildfarm results, I noticed that some members are
> giving warnings like
>
> analyze.c:386:181: warning: expression result unused [-Wunused-value]
>
> which is apparently caused by the use of StaticAssertExpr in
>
> #define AllocSetContextCreate(parent, name, allocparams) \
> (StaticAssertExpr(__builtin_constant_p(name), \
> "Use AllocSetContextCreateExtended with MEMCONTEXT_COPY_NAME for non-constant context names"),
\
> AllocSetContextCreateExtended(parent, name, 0, allocparams))
>
> Now, I could silence those warnings via
>
> - (StaticAssertExpr(__builtin_constant_p(name), \
> + ((void) StaticAssertExpr(__builtin_constant_p(name), \
>
> as I see has already been done in two similar uses of StaticAssertExpr in
> c.h. However, this seems a bit silly. Wouldn't it be better to put
> the void cast right into StaticAssertExpr?
No argument against it here.
Greetings,
Andres Freund