Appease compiler warning

Colvars · Dec 12, 2023 · edeeea6 · edeeea6
1 parent 9dcfdd7
commit edeeea6
Showing 1 changed file with 4 additions and 8 deletions.
diff --git a/src/colvarcomp.cpp b/src/colvarcomp.cpp
@@ -174,6 +174,7 @@ cvm::atom_group *colvar::cvc::parse_group(std::string const &conf,
   std::string group_conf;
 
   if (key_lookup(conf, group_key, &group_conf)) {
+
     group = new cvm::atom_group(group_key);
 
     if (b_try_scalable) {
@@ -190,14 +191,6 @@ cvm::atom_group *colvar::cvc::parse_group(std::string const &conf,
       // TODO check for other types of parallelism here
     }
 
-    if (group_conf.empty()) {
-      error_code |= cvm::error("Error: atom group \"" + group->key + "\" has no definition.\n",
-                               COLVARS_INPUT_ERROR);
-      delete group;
-      group = nullptr;
-      return group;
-    }
-
     cvm::increase_depth();
     error_code |= group->parse(group_conf);
     if (error_code != COLVARS_OK) {
@@ -221,6 +214,9 @@ cvm::atom_group *colvar::cvc::parse_group(std::string const &conf,
     }
   }
 
+  // Silence unused variable warning; TODO stop returning a pointer
+  (void) error_code;
+
   return group;
 }