GCC 4.6 related common package rebuild failures (was Re: mass rebuild status)

John Reiser jreiser at bitwagon.com
Wed Feb 9 17:21:32 UTC 2011


> -Werror=unused-but-set-variable

> 	                              In some cases (often from
> 	macro expansion) you just want to keep such unused variables
> 	around.  You can in that case just cast them to void,
> 	or add __attribute__((__unused__)) to them.

Some code employs a macro:

    #define UNUSED(a) (void)(a)

It is portable and easy to use, provides documentation, facilitates maintenance.

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