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From: theinicke@bss-wf.de
To: 9front@9front.org
Subject: Re: [9front] commit 1a09421f7db897e1d2e2a9210f79ca4389362c3a
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2021 19:53:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <17D4B7589780B6A5C8E1B53851F04C46@bss-wf.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YNBLzJoLBatVq6U6@alice>

Quoth Anthony Martin <ality@pbrane.org>:
> > kencc: clarify warning for unused assignments
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > - warn(Z, "set and not used: %B", bit);
> > + warn(Z, "assignment not used: %B", bit);
> 
> What is unclear about "set and not used"?
> 
> This looks to me like change for change's sake.
> Now it's even more tedious to compare the various
> compiler forks, the symmetry with "used and not
> set" is gone, and the reference to this specific
> warning in /sys/doc/comp.ms is stale.
> 
> For what gain?
> 
>   Anthony

I totally agree with what Anthony wrote;
also in addition to all of this the change is half-assed:

Just looking at the diff one can see that there is
still the line with the typo "set an not used".

s/set an not used/set and not used/ would have been a
better substitution!

--
Tobias Heinicke


      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-06-21 19:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-21  8:20 Anthony Martin
2021-06-21 12:37 ` Noam Preil
2021-06-21 15:20 ` Noam Preil
2021-06-21 18:27   ` hiro
2021-06-21 17:53 ` theinicke [this message]

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