Re: [PATCH 06/16] bcache: Suppress more warnings about set-but-not-used variables

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On 16/03/2018 12:50 AM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-03-16 at 00:20 +0800, Coly Li wrote:
>> On 15/03/2018 11:08 PM, Bart Van Assche wrote:
>>> This patch does not change any functionality.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@xxxxxxx>
>>
>> Hi Bart,
>>
>> This patch looks good to me. A question is, does GCC later than 4.3
>> supports such annotation like '__maybe_unused' ?
> 
> Hello Coly,
> 
> You may want to have a look at the following commit:
> 
> commit 0d7ebbbc6eaa5539f78ab20ed6ff1725a4e332ef
> Author: David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Wed May 9 02:35:27 2007 -0700
> 
>     compiler: introduce __used and __maybe_unused
> 
>     __used is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for all pre-3.3 gcc
>     compilers to suppress warnings for unused functions because perhaps they
>     are referenced only in inline assembly.  It is defined to be
>     __attribute__((used)) for gcc 3.3 and later so that the code is still
>     emitted for such functions.
> 
Hi Bart,

Thanks for the hint, I don't need to worry about it.

Reviewed-by: Coly Li <colyli@xxxxxxx>

Coly Li
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