Re: avoiding 'dead store's reported by clang

[Jim Meyering]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> Jim Meyering wrote:
>> I've run clang on coreutils, and it spotted quite a few dead stores.
>> These changes remove them:
>>
>> The chmod.c change below was not completely transparent, since
>> the new code returns immediately after issuing the root-dev-inode
>> warning, whereas the old code would fall through, and thus might
>> have also printed --verbose diagnostics.
>>
>> Other than that, these are supposed to be "no semantic change" patches.
>
> These look good.

Thanks for looking!