[erlang-questions] dialyzer -Wunderspecs and the binary() type

[James Aimonetti]

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We use -Wunderspecs a lot in our Dialyzing and the only minor complaint
I have is when I get warnings that the success typing is more specfic
with the binary() type.

We see a lot of:

foo.erl:123: Type specfication foo:a_fun(BinVal) -> 'ok' when
is_subtype(BinVal, binary()) is a supertype of the success typing:
foo:a_fun(<<_:8,_:_*8>>) -> 'ok'.

In foo.erl, a_fun/1 is defined as:

- -spec a_fun(BinVal) -> 'ok' when
  BinVal :: binary().
a_fun(BinVal) ->
  %% do something with BinVal
  ok.

This is obviously a simplified, trivial example. Just curious if its
possible to have Dialyzer *not* output the -Wunderspecs warnings for
binaries? Or if there's a better way to specify binary inputs/outputs
(since not all of our functions using binary() in the spec have this issue).

This is in R14B03, if that makes a difference.

Thanks,

James

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