[Python-Dev] Py_DECREF causes spurious gcc warning (original) (raw)

Delaney, Timothy C (Timothy) tdelaney at avaya.com
Wed Dec 17 18:39:48 EST 2003

From: Edward C. Jones

I use Gentoo 1.4 Linux with gcc 3.2.2. The C program given below gives the following compiler message: silly.c: In function silly':_ _silly.c:5: warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous else' ----------------------- #include </usr/local/include/python2.3/Python.h> static PyObject* silly(PyObject* obj, PyObject *args) { if (1) PyDECREF(PyNone);

If I were you, I would pay attention to the warning.

I, of course, just added braces.

If you mean you changed it to:

static PyObject* silly(PyObject* obj, PyObject *args) { if (1) { Py_DECREF(Py_None); }

then I would say that's the right thing to do - all the time, in all code.

Tim Delaney

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