Re: toolchain/53023: config(1) behavior change with new gcc6

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR toolchain/53023; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: toolchain/53023: config(1) behavior change with new gcc6
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 23:27:34 +0000

 On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 01:25:01PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
  >  Yes, uwe is correct. This is not a gcc bug; it is a new warning. The new
  >  gcc ioconf.c is the same as the old gcc ioconf.c in that respect. Both
  >  have the iattr data for dbcool, but the gcc correctly warns because it
  >  is unused. It get's created because of the extra attribute that you've
  >  commented out.
 
 Shouldn't config warn about the unused element, rather than generating
 code that then doesn't compile because the compiler notices?
 
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 David A. Holland
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