Hello, when compiling my program I get a warning in one of my header files
(globals.h) each time a source file includes it.
The warning reads:
globals.h:28: warning: `const char*g_mdi_chil d_class_name' defined but not
used
line 28 of globals.h is:
static const char* g_mdi_child_cla ss_name = "MDIChildClass" ;
Why do I get this warning for this variable? It's used at three places
throughout the program. I have two static const int variables in globals.h
but I don't get any warnings regarding those. I also have five extern
variables.
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William Payne wrote: Hello, when compiling my program I get a warning in one of my header files (globals.h) each time a source file includes it. The warning reads: globals.h:28: warning: `const char*g_mdi_chil d_class_name' defined but not used line 28 of globals.h is: static const char* g_mdi_child_cla ss_name = "MDIChildClass" ;
Why do I get this warning for this variable? It's used at three places throughout the program. I have two static const int variables in globals.h but I don't get any warnings regarding those. I also have five extern variables. ...
Since your variable is declared in a header file as 'static', each
translation unit that includes that header file will get its own "copy"
of this variable. Maybe in some of these translation units the variable
is indeed not used, which causes the above warning to appear. It's just
a guess though.
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Best regards,
Andrey Tarasevich
William Payne wrote: Hello, when compiling my program I get a warning in one of my header files (globals.h) each time a source file includes it. The warning reads: globals.h:28: warning: `const char*g_mdi_chil d_class_name' defined but not used line 28 of globals.h is: static const char* g_mdi_child_cla ss_name = "MDIChildClass" ;
Why do I get this warning for this variable? It's used at three places throughout the program. I have two static const int variables in globals.h but I don't get any warnings regarding those. I also have five extern variables.
Focus on the 'static'. That means each translation unit (.cpp file) gets its
own copy of the variable (unless it's a compile-time constant, which it is
not, because the 'const' is on the left side of the star *).
So each of your translation units, except the three that use the variable,
get a copy of it that they don't use.
Your 'static const int' globals, by contrast, are compile-time constants, so
the compiler logically unifies them, and doesn't grant each translation unit
a separate one.
Write this:
static const char g_mdi_child_cla ss_name[] = "MDIChildClass" ;
That declares intent better anyway. Nobody expected to re-point the former
pointer.
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Phlip http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Tes...UserInterfaces
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Hello, when compiling my program I get a warning in one of my header
files (globals.h) each time a source file includes it. The warning reads: globals.h:28: warning: `const char*g_mdi_chil d_class_name' defined but
not used line 28 of globals.h is: static const char* g_mdi_child_cla ss_name = "MDIChildClass" ;
Why do I get this warning for this variable? It's used at three places throughout the program. I have two static const int variables in
globals.h but I don't get any warnings regarding those. I also have five extern variables. Focus on the 'static'. That means each translation unit (.cpp file) gets
its own copy of the variable (unless it's a compile-time constant, which it is not, because the 'const' is on the left side of the star *).
So each of your translation units, except the three that use the variable, get a copy of it that they don't use.
Your 'static const int' globals, by contrast, are compile-time constants,
so the compiler logically unifies them, and doesn't grant each translation
unit a separate one.
Write this:
static const char g_mdi_child_cla ss_name[] = "MDIChildClass" ;
That declares intent better anyway. Nobody expected to re-point the former pointer.
-- Phlip http://www.xpsd.org/cgi-bin/wiki?Tes...UserInterfaces
Thanks Phlip, that made the warning disappear. Before I had declared those
variables extern instead of static, but I made them static instead because
my
program does not change their values, they are simply used to make code
clearer
(I hate magic numbers/strings).
Is this the proper way of declaring compile-time constants?
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