On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 13:48 +0100, Johan Rydberg wrote:
> Hollis Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > --- grub2-cvs.orig/include/grub/types.h 2006-10-31 19:06:47.000000000
> > -0600
> > +++ grub2-cvs/include/grub/types.h 2006-10-31 19:06:58.000000000 -0600
> > @@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
> > #include <config.h>
> > #include <grub/cpu/types.h>
> >
> > +#define __unused __attribute__ ((unused))
> > +
>
> First when I saw this it made me wanna comment on it, and tell you
> that defines should all be in uppercase. But then I poked through the
> code, and saw the usage of it, and it looked quite nice, with the
> exception of the __-prefix. There are a lot of "common" words that
> are keywords in C; inline, const and auto for example. Maybe we
> should make "unused" a reserved keyword in GRUB? That would allow
> us to write code like;
I left it as "__unused" for now, to match Linux's usage. (We can change
it later if needed.)
> int
> grub_foo (int x, unused int foo)
> {
> ...
> }
I believe gcc attributes can't be used as naturally as this; it would
have to be "int unused foo" or "int unused *foo" (from memory).
-Hollis
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