Re: [Help-glpk] Variable Assigned to itself

[Michael Hennebry]

On Fri, 12 Sep 2014, Nigel Galloway wrote:

> I think you will find that this error is being reported by Codan, a
> truncation of Code Analysis I presume. This is an Eclipse Tool and not
> part of the compiler tool chain. I think you'll find a separate output
> window in Eclipse with the output from the compiler in it. There should
> be no error as t=t is not illegal in C or C++, and I would expect GLPK
> to have compiled correctly.

t=t is valid C, but that does not make it a good idea.

The statement is either as intended or not.
The statement is either a nullity or doing something subtle.

In any case, the code should be changed.
If nothing else,
the code should have documentation to inform its next reader.

> On Wed, Sep 10, 2014, at 04:48 PM, Norman Jessup wrote:
> > I'm trying to compile the glpk source using the Eclipse IDE (I'm not
> > terribly familiar with either).  One module, glpini01.c, is generating
> > multiple errors of the form:
> >
> >      "Assignment to istelf 't = t' "

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