(sound of whip cracking...)

Row, ya bastards!

Paul McCullagh wrote:
> About to change about 250 instances, and then there will be no going
> back...
> 
> Orders from Jay the merciless task master...! ;)
> 
> On Oct 2, 2008, at 4:11 PM, Stewart Smith wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 09:04:47AM -0400, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>> Paul McCullagh wrote:
>>>>> It's probably useful to go through each of the patches there and re-do
>>>>> some of the work. A bunch of the compiler warnings I solved in rather
>>>>> silly ways. e.g. unused parameters, i just did (void)foo; instead
>>>>> of the
>>>>> better solution of removing the parameter.
>>>>
>>>> I'm OK with this solution for the moment. Some of these cannot be
>>>> changed because they involve callbacks which sometimes/may use the
>>>> parameters.
>>>
>>> -1  Please let's use __attribute__((unused)) as it is clearer and
>>> indicates to the caller that the argument is not currently used...the
>>> (void)foo; approach doesn't make it clear in the function declaration
>>> that the parameter isn't used.
>>
>> I remember previously having portability issues with this approach
>> (rather than cast to (void))... can't remember which platform though...
>> I'm guessing HPUX or Solaris or Windows... they usually cause me pain
>> and memory loss.
>> -- 
>> Stewart Smith
> 
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