Jim Meyering wrote:
> Eric Blake wrote:
>
>> >From 3fe95b8d5294df9747982cc6e41a6adb621450a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Eric Blake <e...@byu.net>
>> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2009 08:10:50 -0600
>> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] maint: remove unused macros and declarations
>>
>> * src/system.h (strdupa): Delete unused macro.
> ...
>> -# define ASSIGN_STRDUPA(DEST, S) \
>> - do { DEST = strdupa (S); } while (0)
>> -#else
>> -# define ASSIGN_STRDUPA(DEST, S) \
>> - do \
>> - { \
>> - const char *s_ = (S); \
>> - size_t len_ = strlen (s_) + 1; \
>> - char *tmp_dest_ = alloca (len_); \
>> - DEST = memcpy (tmp_dest_, s_, len_); \
>> - } \
>> - while (0)
>> -#endif
> ...
>
> ?? As far as I can see, one cannot remove ASSIGN_STRDUPA,
> since it is not defined anyplace else.
> The code (cp.c, df.c, copy.c) won't compile without it.
As a side note removing it will allow reinstating a warning check:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-07/msg00069.html
cheers,
Pádraig.
