[U-Boot] [PATCH 7/7] GCC4.6: Squash warning in cmd_mem.c

Simon Glass sjg at chromium.org
Mon Sep 26 20:05:43 CEST 2011


Hi Marek,

On Sun, Sep 25, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com> wrote:
> cmd_mem.c: In function ‘do_mem_loop’:
> cmd_mem.c:474:25: warning: variable ‘junk’ set but not used
> [-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>
> The assigned variable can be removed because the pointers are volatile so
> accesses to their addresses are always generated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut at gmail.com>
> ---
>  common/cmd_mem.c |    8 ++++----
>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/common/cmd_mem.c b/common/cmd_mem.c
> index 4daa1b3..e84cc4e 100644
> --- a/common/cmd_mem.c
> +++ b/common/cmd_mem.c
> @@ -471,7 +471,7 @@ int do_mem_base (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>
>  int do_mem_loop (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>  {
> -       ulong   addr, length, i, junk;
> +       ulong   addr, length, i;
>        int     size;
>        volatile uint   *longp;
>        volatile ushort *shortp;
> @@ -518,7 +518,7 @@ int do_mem_loop (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>                        longp = (uint *)addr;
>                        i = length;
>                        while (i-- > 0)
> -                               junk = *longp++;
> +                               *longp++;
>                }
>        }
>        if (size == 2) {
> @@ -526,14 +526,14 @@ int do_mem_loop (cmd_tbl_t *cmdtp, int flag, int argc, char * const argv[])
>                        shortp = (ushort *)addr;
>                        i = length;
>                        while (i-- > 0)
> -                               junk = *shortp++;
> +                               *shortp++;
>                }
>        }
>        for (;;) {
>                cp = (u_char *)addr;
>                i = length;
>                while (i-- > 0)
> -                       junk = *cp++;
> +                       *cp++;
>        }
>  }

I checked the ARM assembler output and it looks fine.

Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>

Re the 'length == 1' case (above your patch) site, it is assigning to
'i' here. Could/should we remove that assignment also?

Regards,
Simon

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