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| author | David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> | 2007-05-09 02:35:27 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-05-09 12:30:56 -0700 |
| commit | 0d7ebbbc6eaa5539f78ab20ed6ff1725a4e332ef (patch) | |
| tree | ddef8183ac6440e96678fd4d1159ee86619e2a97 /include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | |
| parent | f7e4217b007d1f73e7e3cf10ba4fea4a608c603f (diff) | |
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.
__maybe_unused is defined to be __attribute__((unused)) for both function
and variable use if it could possibly be unreferenced due to the evaluation
of preprocessor macros. Function prototypes shall be marked with
__maybe_unused if the actual definition of the function is dependant on
preprocessor macros.
No update to compiler-intel.h is necessary because ICC supports both
__attribute__((used)) and __attribute__((unused)) as specified by the gcc
manual.
__attribute_used__ is deprecated and will be removed once all current
code is converted to using __used.
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/compiler-gcc.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h index a9f794716a8..03ec2311fb2 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h @@ -40,3 +40,4 @@ #define noinline __attribute__((noinline)) #define __attribute_pure__ __attribute__((pure)) #define __attribute_const__ __attribute__((__const__)) +#define __maybe_unused __attribute__((unused)) |