[BUG] The library does not build with clang

[kpyrkosz]

Describe the bug
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/tmp/benchmark/src/complexity.cc:89:10: error: variable 'sigma_gn' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]

System
uname -a
Linux playground 4.19.0-16-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.181-1 (2021-03-19) x86_64 GNU/Linux
clang --version
clang version 13.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project.git db45746821ab01a54f8df033991c3280c4284e3b)
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: /usr/local/bin

To reproduce
Standard build procedure, cmake && make

Expected behavior
The library builds

Additional context
https://github.com/google/benchmark/blob/main/src/complexity.cc#L85
There probably is a subtle bug somewhere, because even though the variable is initialized (double sigma_gn = 0.0;, line 85) and serves as accumulator inside the loop (sigma_gn += gn_i;, line 93), the summed value is unused.

[dmah42]

is this a warning you're setting for your project that includes benchmark? or something that is newly defaulted to 'on' for clang 13?

I think we can just drop sigma_gn.

[kpyrkosz]

This is more restrictive check for unused variables in recent clang. It is not a warning i set on for my project. The log comes from building the benchmark library itself with default options. -Werror is hardcoded into benchmark's build script. A minimal example demonstrating the problem can be found there:

https://godbolt.org/z/8nqGvMPEK

It builds with trunk gcc and clang 12. Looking at this snippet of code, this indeed is an unused variable. That's exactly the change in trunk clang that breaks the build, and new clang is definitely right there.

[enriavil1]

Hello I am currently having the same issue on the Mac compiler. I get the following message: ".hunter/_Base/fbdd94b/ee174dc/b1b39d7/Build/benchmark/Source/src/complexity.cc:85:10: error: variable 'sigma_gn' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]"