[netcf-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Windows port of netcf api calls

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Sep 23 12:24:59 UTC 2010


On 09/23/2010 06:06 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> For that matter, I don't understand how this even compiles - all the
> args are marked as ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, yet "names" is actually used.

gcc's ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED is a hint and not a requirement - it means 
'suppress the warning if I don't use this', but not 'tell me if I 
mistakenly used it anyways'.  Therefore, it is safe to blindly mark a 
variable ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED even if it ends up being used, it just looks 
funny.

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