RFR 8014431 : cleanup warnings indicated by the -Wunused-value compiler option on linux
David Holmes
david.holmes at oracle.com
Mon Jun 3 00:04:48 PDT 2013
On 30/05/2013 5:28 AM, Jeremy Manson wrote:
> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 5:56 PM, David Holmes <david.holmes at oracle.com
> <mailto:david.holmes at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
> src/share/vm/utilities/__taskqueue.hpp
>
> I do not understand this code:
>
> ! // g++ complains if the volatile result of the assignment
> is unused.
> ! const_cast<E&>(_elems[__localBot] = t);
>
> why do we even need the const cast? How is the assignment
> not used ???
>
> I've tried without the const cast and got the following error:
> /scratch/cccheung/hs25/src/__share/vm/utilities/taskqueue.__hpp:348:
> error:
> object of type ‘volatile StarTask&’ will not be accessed in
> statement
>
> There was an original comment about the const cast as follows:
> 343 // g++ complains if the volatile result of the assignment is
> unused.
> 344 const_cast<E&>(_elems[__localBot] = t);
>
>
> Yep I already quoted that comment above :) And I still don't
> understand it. What variable is a "volatile E&"? _elems is a
> "volatile E*" so I guess _elems[i] is a "volatile E&" but we are
> assigning it, so how can it not be used ??? I wonder if the problem
> is that "t" is a plain E not a "volatile E&"? But then I also wonder
> whether _elems was meant to be declared as "E * volatile" ?
>
> Anyway your current fix is fine.
>
>
>
> I was away on vacation last week, so I didn't participate in this
> thread. Since most of the fixes here were mine, I should probably
> comment. The "cast the volatile away" is because of the last sentence
> in this doc:
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.0.4/gcc/Volatiles.html
>
> The value returned by the assignment statement counts as a read of a
> const volatile variable. Since the const volatile read is unused, g++
> complains. The answer is to cast the value to an rvalue (in this case,
> the original programmer chose to cast away the const).
Thanks for the pointer. This seems like sheer silliness on the part of gcc:
_elems[i];
should issue a warning
_elems[i] = t;
should not.
David
> This is all well and good, but now we have a const_cast whose value is
> unused, so we have to cast it to void.
>
> We can't cast directly to void because void isn't an rvalue.
>
> I couldn't fit that entire explanation in the comment. It might be
> worth someone else having a crack at it.
>
> And it is very possible that the logic is wrong. I didn't look
> carefully at it, but relying on volatile in C++-not-11 to do anything
> other than ensure that writes to mmap regions all happen is probably a
> bad idea.
>
> Jeremy
>
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