From 0d7ebbbc6eaa5539f78ab20ed6ff1725a4e332ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Rientjes Date: Wed, 9 May 2007 02:35:27 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Adrian Bunk Signed-off-by: David Rientjes Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/compiler-gcc.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/compiler-gcc.h') diff --git a/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h b/include/linux/compiler-gcc.h index a9f794716a81..03ec2311fb29 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)) -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b