okay, i went thru this - found a couple of places where a deeper error was 
involved. i've committed those changes, so as far as i'm concerned you can 
update the patch and commit


On May 15, 2013, at 5:43 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> wrote:

> Sure, no problem.
> 
> 
> On May 15, 2013, at 8:41 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:
> 
>> Hmmm...some of this doesn't look right to me. It could be that some of the 
>> code changed and stale things didn't get removed, but the snippets of logic 
>> in your patch raise alarms in some cases.
>> 
>> Can you allow a bit more time? I need to apply the patch and actually look 
>> at the total code path to understand *why* some of these variables are no 
>> longer being used. My fear is that there are cmd line options that may not 
>> be working correctly (but rarely get used/tested) because (a) the variable 
>> is correct, but (b) somehow the rest of the code is in error.
>> 
>> 
>> On May 15, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> WHAT: Remove a bunch of "set but not used" variables / dead code
>>> 
>>> WHY: Because it's dead code
>>> 
>>> WHERE: All over, but NOT the BTL ALLOC macros (per prior 
>>> argu^H^H^H^Hdiscussion)
>>> 
>>> WHEN: Tomorrow (16 May 2013), COB
>>> 
>>> More detail:
>>> 
>>> gcc 4.7.x squawks a lot about "set but unused" variables.  I took a sweep 
>>> through and removed a bunch of them -- they're all obviously dead code.
>>> 
>>> I did *not*, however, remove the setting of rc in the various BTL/OOB 
>>> ALLOC_FRAG macros, per prior disagreements in emails about this.  Perhaps 
>>> someone else will find a compromise for that someday -- this patch is not 
>>> about fixing those warnings.  This patch is only about removing the obvious 
>>> set-but-really-never-used variables.
>>> 
>>> Short timeout because this is actually pretty trivial, but it does touch 
>>> other people's code, so I wanted people to see it / get a heads-up before I 
>>> committed.  Patch attached.
>>> 
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