Mike, That sounds like the right fox to me. Disable the warning. > On Feb 2, 2022, at 1:18 PM, Michael D Kinney wrote: > >  > Hi Rebecca, > > GCC added -Wno-unused-but-set-variable back in 2016 for RELEASE builds to address this same issue > > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/20d00edf21d2f2144921622891d8b59a1553cd83 > > Then later added -Wno-unused-const-variable > > https://github.com/tianocore/edk2/commit/8b6366f8758426fd6710646574b9a7e583e0fe0d > > Mike > > From: Rebecca Cran > Sent: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 12:52 PM > To: Kinney, Michael D ; Gao, Liming ; Liu, Zhiguang ; devel@edk2.groups.io > Subject: MdePkg fails to build in RELEASE mode with clang 13 (CLANG38 toolset) > > With the CLANG38 toolset (clang version 13.0.0) MdePkg fails to build in RELEASE mode because Status is only used by an assert. > > edk2/MdePkg/Library/UefiMemoryAllocationLib/MemoryAllocationLib.c:141:15: error: variable 'Status' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable] > EFI_STATUS Status; > ^ > edk2/MdePkg/Library/UefiMemoryAllocationLib/MemoryAllocationLib.c:347:15: error: variable 'Status' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable] > EFI_STATUS Status; > ^ > edk2/MdePkg/Library/UefiMemoryAllocationLib/MemoryAllocationLib.c:818:15: error: variable 'Status' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable] > EFI_STATUS Status; > > -- > Rebecca Cran > >