Overview Description: More detailed expansion of summary. When compiling template functions in g++ 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) (Debian testing/unstable) with -O2 and -Wall, the compiler generates a warning about a statement with no effect. This seems to be due to the inlining with __v; as a statement, but the warning does not occur in non-template functions or with other compiler versions tried (3.4).
Steps to Reproduce: Minimized, easy-to-follow steps that will trigger the bug. Include any special setup steps. 1) Create the following .cc file (as test.cc): #include <netinet/in.h> template<typename S> void serialize(const uint32_t* pitem, const S& item) { uint32_t t2 = htonl(item); } 2) Compile "test.cc" $ g++ -O2 -Wall -c -o test.o test.cc Actual Results: What the application did after performing the above steps. g++ generated a warning that the htonl statement has no effect. $ g++ -O2 -Wall -c -o test.o test.cc test.cc: In function 'void serialize(const uint32_t*, const S&)': test.cc:5: warning: statement has no effect Expected Results: What the application should have done, were the bug not present. test.o should have been created without warning Build Date & Platform: Date and platform of the build that you first encountered the bug in. >Release: 4.0.2 (Debian 4.0.2-2) (Debian testing/unstable) configured with: ../src/configure -v --enable-languages=c,c++,java,f95,objc,ada,treelang --prefix=/usr --enable-shared --with-system-zlib --libexecdir=/usr/lib--without-included-gettext --enable-threads=posix --enable-nls --program-suffix=-4.0 --enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-libstdcxx-allocator=mt --enable-clocale=gnu--enable-libstdcxx-debug --enable-java-gc=boehm --enable-java-awt=gtk --enable-gtk-cairo --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.4.2-gcj-4.0-1.4.2.0/jre --enable-mpfr --disable-werror --enable-checking=release i486-linux-gnu >Environment: System: Linux killian.ucsd.edu 2.6.12.20051019-ck1 #1 SMP Wed Oct 19 09:24:47 PDT 2005 i686 GNU/Linux Architecture: i686 Additional Builds and Platforms: Whether or not the bug takes place on other platforms (or browsers, if applicable). - Also Occurs On Unknown - Doesn't Occur On g++ version 3.4.4 20050721 (Red Hat 3.4.4-2) Or without -O2, -Wall, or outside of a template function. -- Summary: htonl in optimized template function generates compiler warning Product: gcc Version: 4.0.2 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: minor Priority: P2 Component: c++ AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: ckillian at cs dot ucsd dot edu GCC build triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu GCC host triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu GCC target triplet: i486-pc-linux-gnu http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24522