Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

David Rientjes
2007-05-03T19:00:39Z

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > That's only addressing part of the issue. What about automatic or static
> > external variables that are declared but may go unreferenced depending on
>
> This is only about static code. For non-static code it would be
> impossible for gcc to issue warnings.
>

static external variables are certainly still static code and gcc issues
the proper warnings if I do:

static struct bootnode nodes[MAX_NUMNODES];

and I never reference nodes.