From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9203 invoked by alias); 21 Sep 2003 04:20:11 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 9193 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2003 04:20:11 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO concert.shout.net) (204.253.184.25) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 21 Sep 2003 04:20:11 -0000 Received: from duracef.shout.net (duracef.shout.net [204.253.184.12]) by concert.shout.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id h8L4K8Ht022058; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:20:08 -0500 Received: from duracef.shout.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duracef.shout.net (8.12.10/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h8L4K8Vd010675; Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:20:08 -0500 Received: (from mec@localhost) by duracef.shout.net (8.12.10/8.12.9/Submit) id h8L4K8Hv010674; Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:20:08 -0400 Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 04:20:00 -0000 From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Message-Id: <200309210420.h8L4K8Hv010674@duracef.shout.net> To: ac131313@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [ob] Eliminate /* ARGSUSED */ X-SW-Source: 2003-09/txt/msg00441.txt.bz2 ac> I've committed the attached (btw, does anyone know the history of this ac> habit? lint?). Yes. It's a meaningful comment to lint. A quick googling gives a glimpse: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lint/toc.html In C++ you can write this: int foo (char *arg, int) Which is an effective way of saying that the second argument cannot be used. I dunno if any version of C supports this nice syntax. Michael C