[Python-Dev] RE: [Python-checkins] python/dist/src/Objects listobject.c, 2.218, 2.219 (original) (raw)

Jeremy Hylton jhylton at gmail.com
Tue Aug 3 14:51:36 CEST 2004

On Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:48:24 +0200, Sjoerd Mullender <sjoerd at acm.org> wrote:

This is indeed perverted. Another option is to add a statement (void) status; somewhere to the function and to remove the status++ from the return. This seems to shut up all compilers I've dealt with.

I believe we use this idiom elsewhere in the Python codebase. If it's combined with a comment like /* avoid compile warning about unused variable */ it's quite clear.

Jeremy

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