Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:50:19 -0400 (EDT) | From | "Richard B. Johnson" <> | Subject | Re: __attribute__((unused)) |
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 23:08, Russell King wrote: >> It's the "later compilers" which I'm worried about here - I think they >> defined "unused" to mean "this really really isn't used and you can >> discard it". Hence my concern with the above. > > This was the explanation I got some time ago > > -- quote -- > > So "used" cases that used "unused" could break, though older compilers > in essence used "unused" to mean both "used" and "unused". Since > "unused" becomes useless for using in "used" cases, we now must be sure > to use "used" when that's the use that's useful. > -- Roland McGrath > > > I found it so helpful it became a .sig 8) > Yes. Just like "less" is more than "more"......and whos on first base.
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