GCC warnings for unused global variables

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

Bruce Korb <bkorb@veritas.com> writes:

[...]

| unusual interpretation of the wording.   REMEMBER:  you are trying
| to help programmers accomplish their task.  You are not trying to
| cause grief just because the law of the C language left a hole
| allowing you to whack 'em.

I think you got my messages wrong.  

What I was saying, as already written in another message, is that
volatile is not a reliable feature to use to write robust code with
reproducible or predictable behaviour.

-- Gaby