'otable_syms' defined but not used
Per Bothner
per@bothner.com
Mon Sep 22 20:50:00 GMT 2003
Andrew Haley wrote:
> I'm not sure that "defined but not used" makes any sense as part of
> -Wall in Java. It's not unreasonable to have unused fields for future
> expansion,
The warning is only appropriate for private fields (or equivalent,
such as protected fields in final classes), and local variables.
I don't think we can warn about unused parameters.
But I see no benefit to having unused private fields, and
we should warn about those.
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