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SubjectRe: [PATCH] eliminate warnings in generated module files
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> In message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0302251546590.2185-100000@home.transmeta.com> you
> wri te:
>>
>> On Tue, 25 Feb 2003, Rusty Russell wrote:
>> >
>> > __optional should always be __attribute__((__unused__)), and
>> > __required should be your __attribute_used__.
>>
>> But I think rth's point was that "__module_depends" should definitely
>> _not_ be "optional", since that just means that the compiler can (and
>> will) optimize away the whole thing.
>>
>> So marking it optional is definitely the wrong thing to do.
>
> This time for sure!
>
> Name: __optional attribute
> Author: Rusty Russell
> Status: Trivial

I have to agree with Kai and Milton Miller on this (bad) naming.
__required and __optional don't generate the corrent connotations
of what is being attempted here.

Milton suggesting spelling __attribute_used__ as __keep or
__needed. I prefer __attribute_used__, but something like
__mark_as_used__ would be OK too.

And what uses __optional, however it is spelled?

Thanks,
~Randy




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