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How to specifically suppress "Comparing identical expressions" in Eclipse-Helios JDT

I tried annotating the enclosing method with

    @SuppressWarnings("compareIdentical")

but this does not work (worse yet, the annotation results in its own Unsupported @SuppressWarnings("compareIdentical") warning!)

I know that I can always use

    @SuppressWarnings("all")

but that'd be more warning-suppression than I want.

FWIW, I got the "compareIdentical" string from the "Warning Options" table in http://help.eclipse.org/helios/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.jdt.doc.isv/guide/jdt_api_compile.htm (a hail-mary pass, to be sure).

Thanks!

Solution

  • Officially, there are only 3 supported arguments to @SuppressWarnings(), as specified by the standard $9.6.4.5:

    • Unchecked warnings (§4.8, §5.1.6, §5.1.9, §8.4.1, §8.4.8.3, §15.12.4.2, §15.13.2, §15.27.3) are specified by the string "unchecked".
    • Deprecation warnings (§9.6.4.6) are specified by the string "deprecation".
    • Removal warnings (§9.6.4.6) are specified by the string "removal".

    But, in small text, the standard mentions support for extra types:

    For other kinds of warnings, compiler vendors should document the strings they support for @SuppressWarnings. Vendors are encouraged to cooperate to ensure that the same names work across multiple compilers.

    These are supported by some compilers:

    • all to suppress all warnings
    • boxing to suppress warnings relative to boxing/unboxing operations
    • cast to suppress warnings relative to cast operations
    • dep-ann to suppress warnings relative to deprecated annotation
    • deprecation to suppress warnings relative to deprecation
    • fallthrough to suppress warnings relative to missing breaks in switch statements
    • finally to suppress warnings relative to finally block that don't return
    • hiding to suppress warnings relative to locals that hide variable
    • incomplete-switch to suppress warnings relative to missing entries in a switch statement (enum case)
    • nls to suppress warnings relative to non-nls string literals
    • null to suppress warnings relative to null analysis
    • raw to suppress warnings relative to usage of raw types
    • restriction to suppress warnings relative to usage of discouraged or forbidden references
    • serial to suppress warnings relative to missing serialVersionUID field for a serializable class
    • static-access to suppress warnings relative to incorrect static access
    • super to suppress warnings relative to overriding a method without super invocations
    • synthetic-access to suppress warnings relative to unoptimized access from inner classes
    • unchecked to suppress warnings relative to unchecked operations
    • unqualified-field-access to suppress warnings relative to field access unqualified
    • unused to suppress warnings relative to unused code and dead code

    So, there is nothing which might help you.