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From: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc4xx: Add Sequoia RAM-booting target
Date: Thu, 07 May 2009 14:22:45 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A033505.90909@freescale.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090507190628.0231F83420E8@gemini.denx.de>

Wolfgang Denk wrote:
> Dear Stefan,
> 
> in message <200905071739.56301.sr@denx.de> you wrote:
>>>> Linux kernel btw. Here the macro "__maybe_unsed" is defined to
>>>> "__attribute__((unused))".
>>> In many cases?  a rgrep on a recent kernel counts 84 incantations, which
>>> is not much for the Linux kernel, I believe.
>> Perhaps it's quite new to the Linux kernel. I just spotted it the first time a 
>> few weeks ago and thought: "What a nice way to remove some of the ugly 
>> #ifdef's in U-Boot!". :)
> 
> My understanding was that  this  is  (only?)  intended  for  function
> declarations  to  silence  warnings  about  unused function arguments
> (which may be necessary anyway for  compatible  call  interface  with
> other functions that actually need this arg).

Unusued function argument warnings are not normally enabled in the first 
place (it's a separate warning class from unused variables).

-Scott

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-07 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-05 15:01 [U-Boot] [PATCH] ppc4xx: Add Sequoia RAM-booting target Stefan Roese
2009-05-07 12:25 ` Detlev Zundel
2009-05-07 13:30   ` Stefan Roese
2009-05-07 15:06     ` Detlev Zundel
2009-05-07 15:39       ` Stefan Roese
2009-05-07 19:06         ` Wolfgang Denk
2009-05-07 19:22           ` Scott Wood [this message]
2009-05-08  4:30           ` Stefan Roese
2009-05-08 12:34         ` Detlev Zundel
2009-05-07 18:42     ` Wolfgang Denk

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