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From: "Pierre Muller" <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>
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Subject: [ARI] Status of ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED in gdb sources
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 13:49:00 -0000
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  The Awk Regression Index page:
http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/ari/

Only has one Critical entry at top before the big table:

BUG ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED with 18 occurences.
Description is:
	Do not use ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED, do not bother (GDB is compiled with
-Werror and, consequently, is not able to tolerate false warnings. Since
-Wunused-param produces such warnings, neither that warning flag nor
ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED are used by GDB.

  Is this comment still valid, from the compiler point of view?
Does gcc still have such problems?

  If yes, is it OK if I remove all
ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED from sources?
 
  If no, shouldn't we change that policy?


Pierre Muller
as ARI maintainer for GDB