Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

[David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>]

On Thu, 3 May 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> > That's only addressing part of the issue.  What about automatic or static 
> > external variables that are declared but may go unreferenced depending on 
> 
> This is only about static code. For non-static code it would be
> impossible for gcc to issue warnings.
> 

static external variables are certainly still static code and gcc issues 
the proper warnings if I do:

	static struct bootnode nodes[MAX_NUMNODES];

and I never reference nodes.
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