From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: binutils@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] A missing ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 11:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020129141659.A2426@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3C56EF3A.1080302@cygnus.com>
On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >What's the policy on functions that conditionally use their arguments? I
> >couldn't find another example offhand, so I don't know if this patch is
> >right.
> >
> >With this one I can do most of a -Werror build again.
>
>
> Have a look in BFD :-)
>
> BINUTILS uses ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED. GDB uses -Wno-unused-params.
This is conditionally unused, according to conditional compilation;
that's what I couldn't find an example of. I think it's fine, though.
I understand GDB's reason for not using it, and I think that perhaps we
should instead have pushed for new attributes that provide the
functionality GDB wants.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-29 19:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-29 9:13 Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-01-29 11:40 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-29 11:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-01-29 19:47 ` Alan Modra
2002-01-29 21:43 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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