[netcf-devel] [PATCH 1/5] Windows port of netcf api calls
Laine Stump
laine at laine.org
Thu Sep 23 14:33:25 UTC 2010
On 09/23/2010 08:24 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
> 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.
>
Ah, I see. It may give the programmer a false sense of security about
something or other though (I haven't taken the time to mentally
articulate exactly what, but something ;-)
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