On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Teresa Johnson <tejohn...@google.com> wrote: > This patch allows the unused attribute to be used without warning > on C++ class members, which are of type FIELD_DECL. This is for > compatibility with clang, which allows the attribute to be specified on > class members and struct fields. It looks like more work would need to > be done to implement the actual unused variable detection and warning > on FIELD_DECLs, but this change will at least avoid the warning on the > code that uses the unused attribute in these cases. The documentation at > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html also doesn't > seem to preclude its use on C++ member variables.
This also allows it on field in normal C case. As far as I understand they are fields and not variables in the normal programming sense which is why the document does not mention them. Thanks, Andrew Pinski > > Bootstrapped and tested on x86-64-unknown-linux-gnu. Ok for trunk? > > 2013-03-30 Teresa Johnson <tejohn...@google.com> > > * c-family/c-common.c (handle_unused_attribute): Handle > FIELD_DECL for C++ class members. > > Index: c-family/c-common.c > =================================================================== > --- c-family/c-common.c (revision 197266) > +++ c-family/c-common.c (working copy) > @@ -6753,6 +6753,7 @@ handle_unused_attribute (tree *node, tree name, tr > > if (TREE_CODE (decl) == PARM_DECL > || TREE_CODE (decl) == VAR_DECL > + || TREE_CODE (decl) == FIELD_DECL > || TREE_CODE (decl) == FUNCTION_DECL > || TREE_CODE (decl) == LABEL_DECL > || TREE_CODE (decl) == TYPE_DECL) > > -- > This patch is available for review at http://codereview.appspot.com/8212043