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Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: David O'Brien <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- Cc: Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>, Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at mail dot ru>,pthomas at suse dot de, ak03 at gte dot com, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 12:14:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
- References: <20030429165657.634a1628.ak03@gte.com> <20030430083713.GU4016@paradies.suse.de> <20030430233243.GM697@redhat.com> <20030430194730.68abe5b4.kabaev@mail.ru> <20030501002107.GP697@redhat.com> <20030502160048.GA48907@dragon.nuxi.com>
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 09:00:48AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 05:21:07PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 30, 2003 at 07:47:30PM -0400, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> > > Anyway, my question was about boatload of
> > > third-party software, which normally should not be modified locally.
> > > const static rcsid's are very common.
> >
> > Then you'll have to ignore the warning.
>
> Ah yes, the position of the GNU toolchain developers whose code isn't
> even near warns clean...
>
> As someone with a source base that is (well was until GCC 3.3) warns
> clean I can tell you adding things willy nilly to -Wall is a problem. If
> GCC and Binutils were -Wall -Werror clean, maybe the GCC developers
> thinking this thread isn't an issue would have a different opinion.
Have you noticed perhaps that the majority of GCC HEAD _is_ -Wall
-Werror clean?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer