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Re: [PATCH v2] stat-time: silence -Wunused-parameter regression


From: Tim Rühsen
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] stat-time: silence -Wunused-parameter regression
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 11:53:40 +0100
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... here is another one in lib/cdef.h occurring with a  MinGW build.


In file included from ../lib/libc-config.h:149:0,
                 from ../lib/glob.h:24,
                 from utils.c:35:
../lib/cdefs.h:298:6: warning: "__USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL" is not defined,
evaluates to 0 [-Wundef]
 # if __USE_FORTIFY_LEVEL > 0
      ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


With Best Regards, Tim



On 01/03/2018 02:27 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 2, 2018 at 1:56 PM, Eric Blake <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Commit 2c5d5587 causes warnings on non-Sun systems when compiled
>> under -Wunused-parameter; we've previously tweaked code in commit
>> 81eb8486 to avoid such warnings.  Prefer an attribute rather than
>> a cast to void (the attribute is always okay to apply; gcc
>> interprets it as 'may be unused', not 'must not be used', precisely
>> to cater to #if chains where determining whether or not the
>> parameter is used gets hairy).
>>
>> * lib/stat-time.h (get_stat_birthtime_ns, get_stat_birthtime):
>> Prefer attribute over cast-to-void.
>> (stat_time_normalize): Mark st as potentially unused.
> 
> Thanks. That sounds like the right approach. We have to hold
> user-included headers to a higher standard.
> 
> 

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