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

Asked 2011-08-09T13:07:47.007
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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!

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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
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    answered 2011-08-09T13:32:49.813

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