On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 11:56:34AM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: > 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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