Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/config
To: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 05/14/2006 21:20:27
On May 14, 2006, at 8:31 PM, matthew green wrote:
>
>
> Module Name: src
> Committed By: christos
> Date: Sun May 14 23:47:34 UTC 2006
>
> Modified Files:
> src/usr.bin/config: main.c
>
> Log Message:
> gcc-4.0 needs attribute used. Variables with attribute unused
> get removed.
>
>
> hmmm... older GCC's want the unused attribute. i've had this problem
> in the past. i'm not sure this change is good enough...? perhaps it
> should only use "used" with gcc major >= 4?
"used" should work fine with GCC 3.x at least.. and I think it will
be OK with 2.95.3, also. If there are problems with the others, I
would prefer tweaking the older compilers to recognized the newer
attribute.
-- thorpej