On Wed, 23 Oct 2024 05:07:37 GMT, Julian Waters <jwat...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> After 8339120, gcc began catching many different instances of unused code in > the Windows specific codebase. Some of these seem to be bugs. I've taken the > effort to mark out all the relevant globals and locals that trigger the > unused warnings and addressed all of them by commenting out the code as > appropriate. I am confident that in many cases this simplistic approach of > commenting out code does not fix the underlying issue, and the warning > actually found a bug that should be fixed. In these instances, I will be > aiming to fix these bugs with help from reviewers, so I recommend anyone > reviewing who knows more about the code than I do to see whether there is > indeed a bug that needs fixing in a different way than what I did src/java.desktop/share/native/common/awt/debug/debug_trace.h line 66: > 64: /* each file includes this flag indicating module trace status */ > 65: #ifdef __cplusplus > 66: [[maybe_unused]] I don't really know what to do about this one. The solution is messy, but it's the only one I could come up with. A static global in a header is just begging for an unused-variable error to happen ------------- PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/21655#discussion_r1811859559