Intrinsics.sitofp doesn't have a return type. It needs to be wrapped by a
call to Intrinsics.box to actually get a return type assigned. There are a
few places (such as sitofp) where the expr type doesn't matter, so type
inference doesn't bother marking them. Unfortunately, code_warntype doesn't
know that, so it highlights those places anyways.


On Sat, Jul 18, 2015 at 8:39 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have developed a parameterized type called SortedDict, and a version of
> the code recently developed is generating type warnings; I can't figure out
> why.  The type SortedDict is parameterized by K (key type), D (data type)
> and Ord (ordering). Let s be of type SortedDict(ASCIIString, Float64,
> Forward).
>
> The following snippet is generating a type warning when checked with
> @code_warntype setindex1(s, 5, "c")
>
> function setindex1{K, D, Ord <: Ordering}(m::SortedDict{K,D,Ord}, d_, k_)
>     insert!(m.bt, convert(K,k_), convert(D,d_), false)
> end
>
> on a call to Base.sitopf.  As far as I know, this is a new problem (i.e.,
> did not exist in previous versions of 0.4)  Shouldn't the compiler know
> that the result of Base.sitopf is of type Float64?
>
>
> Meanwhile, the following snippet, which I thought would be equivalent, is
> generating four type warning (according to @code_warntype setindex2(s, 5,
> "c"): one on each 'convert' invocation and one on the invocations of
> keytype and datatype each:
>
> @inline keytype{K,D,Ord <: Ordering}(m::SortedDict{K,D,Ord}) = K
> @inline datatype{K,D,Ord <: Ordering}(m::SortedDict{K,D,Ord}) = D
>
> function setindex2(m::SortedDict, d_, k_)
>     insert!(m.bt, convert(keytype(m),k_), convert(datatype(m),d_), false)
> end
>
> This is in Julia 0.4, 6-day-old master.  Why is the type inferencing not
> working as I would have expected?
>
> Thanks,
> Steve Vavasis
>
>

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