Re: No unused constant warnings

[Brooks Moses <brooks dot moses at codesourcery dot com>]

At 10:54 PM 3/10/2007, FX Coudert wrote:
> > From a fairly quick look through the source code, it appears that
> > the warning in question is produced when a local-variable
> > declaration is generated, in the part of the code that produces a
> > language-independent representation to be passed along to the GCC
> > optimizers and backends.
> >
> > At that point, parameters and constants have generally already been
> > folded in and so forth, and so (as far as I know) there isn't
> > really a comparable place in the code to put in a parallel check
> > for them.
>
> Of course, it doesn't mean it can't be implemented at all, or even it
> isn't worth implementing.
>
> Could you file a bug-report about it? (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla)

Indeed, and I should have mentioned that!  In any case, Terry emailed me 
privately to say that he's already done so.

Thanks!
- Brooks