[gcc r16-1168] ada: Confusing "modified by call, but value overwritten" warning
Marc Poulhies
dkm@gcc.gnu.org
Thu Jun 5 08:23:19 GMT 2025
https://gcc.gnu.org/g:abc2efc4fba94bc4043031dc891d45ba9ad10919
commit r16-1168-gabc2efc4fba94bc4043031dc891d45ba9ad10919
Author: squirek <squirek@adacore.com>
Date: Mon Jan 13 21:04:51 2025 +0000
ada: Confusing "modified by call, but value overwritten" warning
The patch fixes an issue in the compiler whereby not referencing a local
variable used in multiple procedure calls as an "out" actual in between
calls would lead to a warning despite "-gnatw.o" not being present.
Additionally, this meant that using pragma Unreferenced on such variables
would not be able to silence such warnings.
gcc/ada/ChangeLog:
* sem_warn.adb
(Warn_On_Useless_Assignment): Disable out value "overwritten" warning
when we are not warning on unread out parameters (e.g. "-gnatw.o").
Diff:
---
gcc/ada/sem_warn.adb | 8 +++++---
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gcc/ada/sem_warn.adb b/gcc/ada/sem_warn.adb
index 35ef61664723..1bc97a851039 100644
--- a/gcc/ada/sem_warn.adb
+++ b/gcc/ada/sem_warn.adb
@@ -4670,9 +4670,11 @@ package body Sem_Warn is
if Nkind (Parent (LA)) in N_Procedure_Call_Statement
| N_Parameter_Association
then
- Error_Msg_NE
- ("?m?& modified by call, but value overwritten #!",
- LA, Ent);
+ if Warn_On_All_Unread_Out_Parameters then
+ Error_Msg_NE
+ ("?m?& modified by call, but value overwritten #!",
+ LA, Ent);
+ end if;
else
Error_Msg_NE -- CODEFIX
("?m?useless assignment to&, value overwritten #!",
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