[Mono-devel-list] Warning CS0162?

[Michi Henning]

>
> Code is considered unreachable if (surprise) there's no way for the code
> to be executed at runtime.  For example:
>
> void Cs0162 ()
> {
> Console.WriteLine ("Hello, World!");
> return;
> Console.WriteLine ("This generates CS0162");
> }
>
> Obviously the second Console.WriteLine won't ever be executed, due to
> the `return' statement on the previous line.  This is the simplest
> example, but other situations can generate the warning.

Right. I figured that it was something along those lines.

> > Any way to get rid of the warning?
>
> Fix the code so that the unreachable code isn't present.

:-) Right :-)

Except that I don't get a source file name or a line number. There are
something like 100 source files in the DLL, some of them quite large,
so it isn't trivial to work out what causes the warning.

> Alternatively, if you *know* that the code *is* reachable and the
> warning is generated erroneously, it could be an mcs bug; please file it
> in bugzilla.

Well, not knowing where the warning is generated means that I can't really
assert that just now. But I *do* know that the same code compiles without
any warnings with Visual Studio .NET, so it may well be a compiler error.

Any suggestions for how to convince mcs to give me a more precise
diagnostic?

Thanks,

Michi.

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