On Sun, Jun 3, 2018 at 2:40 PM, Theron <theron.tar...@gmail.com> wrote: >> 4. Disable the stupid warning in the Makefile / build system. If you don't >> care, and there's a good reason for what you are doing (sounds like there >> is), better to just disable the warning as so much useless noise. >> >> Warner >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list >> https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > > Or possibly, alongside a comment as in (3), use one of these: > 5 - Disable warning pragma - > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Diagnostic-Pragmas.html > 6 - Use __attribute__((unused)) - > https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Common-Variable-Attributes.html#Common-Variable-Attributes
There is already an __unused alias for #6. It's what I've used to annotate variables that are only used by INVARIANTS builds. It legitimately finds a bunch of dead code. However, 90+% of the instances of the warning are not interesting. -M _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
