Sure, no problem.

On May 15, 2013, at 8:41 PM, Ralph Castain <r...@open-mpi.org> wrote:

> Hmmm...some of this doesn't look right to me. It could be that some of the 
> code changed and stale things didn't get removed, but the snippets of logic 
> in your patch raise alarms in some cases.
> 
> Can you allow a bit more time? I need to apply the patch and actually look at 
> the total code path to understand *why* some of these variables are no longer 
> being used. My fear is that there are cmd line options that may not be 
> working correctly (but rarely get used/tested) because (a) the variable is 
> correct, but (b) somehow the rest of the code is in error.
> 
> 
> On May 15, 2013, at 5:24 PM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> WHAT: Remove a bunch of "set but not used" variables / dead code
>> 
>> WHY: Because it's dead code
>> 
>> WHERE: All over, but NOT the BTL ALLOC macros (per prior 
>> argu^H^H^H^Hdiscussion)
>> 
>> WHEN: Tomorrow (16 May 2013), COB
>> 
>> More detail:
>> 
>> gcc 4.7.x squawks a lot about "set but unused" variables.  I took a sweep 
>> through and removed a bunch of them -- they're all obviously dead code.
>> 
>> I did *not*, however, remove the setting of rc in the various BTL/OOB 
>> ALLOC_FRAG macros, per prior disagreements in emails about this.  Perhaps 
>> someone else will find a compromise for that someday -- this patch is not 
>> about fixing those warnings.  This patch is only about removing the obvious 
>> set-but-really-never-used variables.
>> 
>> Short timeout because this is actually pretty trivial, but it does touch 
>> other people's code, so I wanted people to see it / get a heads-up before I 
>> committed.  Patch attached.
>> 
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