[alsa-devel] [PATCH] ALSA: have snd_BUG_ON() always refer to arguments

Takashi Iwai tiwai at suse.de
Fri Nov 7 08:15:18 CET 2008


At Fri, 7 Nov 2008 02:09:04 -0500,
Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 01:22, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Thu,  6 Nov 2008 21:05:21 -0500,
> > Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >> The snd_BUG_ON() macro should always expand its argument even if we're
> >> forcing it to false.  This kills off unused warnings that did not exist
> >> before the snd_assert() -> snd_BUG_ON() conversion.
> >
> > Andrew already change this differently.  Check with the latest version.
> 
> what are you defining as "latest version" ?  i'm looking in torvalds
> linux-2.6.git.

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6.git

> > And which warning did you get actually?
> 
> a few codecs define local vars which only get used in snd_BUG_ON() ...
> so if snd_BUG_ON() doesnt utilize cond, gcc whines that the var is
> unused.

I know it.  But I thought all these were removed in the actual codes.
I'd like to see the real warning messages.


thanks,

Takashi


More information about the Alsa-devel mailing list