Re: [PATCH] Fix Solaris compiler warnings

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:

> Junio C Hamano, Fri, Nov 16, 2007 00:16:25 +0100:
>> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Guido Ostkamp, Thu, Nov 15, 2007 23:19:11 +0100:
>> ...
>> >>     CC builtin-apply.o
>> >> "builtin-apply.c", line 686: warning: statement not reached
>> >>     CC utf8.o
>> >> "utf8.c", line 287: warning: statement not reached
>> >>     CC xdiff/xdiffi.o
>> >> "xdiff/xdiffi.c", line 261: warning: statement not reached
>> >
>> > All these are wrong. That's a fantastically broken piece of compiler
>> 
>> I've looked at builtin-apply and utf8 cases but these returns
>> are after an endless loop whose exit paths always return
>> directly, so these return statements are in fact never reached.
>> ...
>
> Hmm... Guido, I owe you an appology. Still, consider this patch
> instead (it does not fix the return in xdiff/xdiffi.c though):

If you are referring to the "xdiff/xdiffi.c:line 261" one (which
I did not say if I looked at it or not), I think there is
nothing to fix there, either.  In front of itt is a big fat loop
controlled with:

	for (ec = 1;; ec++) {
		...
	}

and only exits from there are returns.  Two "break" appear but
they are breaking out of nested inner loops and would not escape
this outermost loop.