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Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
- From: "David O'Brien" <obrien at FreeBSD dot org>
- To: Bonzini <bonzini at gnu dot org>
- Cc: gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Fri, 2 May 2003 09:34:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: GCC warnings for unused global variables
- Organization: The NUXI BSD Group
- References: <002301c3109f$eac9e410$dadf1d97@bonz>
- Reply-to: obrien at FreeBSD dot org
On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:42:30PM +0200, Bonzini wrote:
> mankind is warned with at least a year of advance, and let's face that
> the fix is (more or less) as simple as
> grep -rl "^static.*const.*rcsid" | perl -i -pe '!$replaced_yet && s/^static.*const(.*rcsid)/volatile$1/ && ($replaced_yet = 1)'.
You've never worked on a large corporate source base have you? Just
making the source change is only 1/2 the battle. Getting the review
board (or release engineer, or what ever) approval for wide sweeping
changes can be quite difficult.
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)