Lisa, should not compiler yell in this case as well?

Nilay


On Thu, March 31, 2011 8:22 pm, Lisa Hsu wrote:
> changeset c7302d55d644 in /z/repo/m5
> details: http://repo.m5sim.org/m5?cmd=changeset;node=c7302d55d644
> description:
>       CacheMemory: add allocateVoid() that is == allocate() but no return
> value.
>       This function duplicates the functionality of allocate() exactly, except
> that it does not return
>       a return value.  In protocols where you just want to allocate a block
>       but do not want that block to be your implicitly passed cache_entry, use
> this function.
>       Otherwise, SLICC will complain if you do not consume the pointer 
> returned
> by allocate(),
>       and if you do a dummy assignment Entry foo := cache.allocate(address),
> the C++
>       compiler will complain of an unused variable.  This is kind of a hack to
> get around
>       those issues, but suggestions welcome.
>


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