rust-base64 Clippy nightly false positive

Clippy nightly false positive

Open danieleades opened this issue 3 years ago • 4 comments

clippy is throwing a false positive

cargo +nightly clippy                                                                                                                                 101 ✘ 
    Checking base64 v0.20.0-alpha.1 (/home/dan/Code/rust/rust-base64)
error: parameter is only used in recursion
   --> src/engine/fast_portable/mod.rs:203:34
    |
203 | pub(crate) const fn decode_table(alphabet: &Alphabet) -> [u8; 256] {
    |                                  ^^^^^^^^ help: if this is intentional, prefix with an underscore: `_alphabet`
    |
note: the lint level is defined here
   --> src/lib.rs:86:5
    |
86  |     warnings
    |     ^^^^^^^^
    = note: `#[deny(clippy::only_used_in_recursion)]` implied by `#[deny(warnings)]`
    = help: for further information visit https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#only_used_in_recursion

error: could not compile `base64` due to previous error

see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-clippy/issues/8629