Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:34:10 +0000 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: (void)foo or __unused foo ? Message-ID: <10806.1343414050@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 27 Jul 2012 14:51:34 %2B0200." <20120727125134.GA58187@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>
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In message <20120727125134.GA58187@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes: >A comment might be used to explain the intention in even more detail: > > (void)foo; /* unused on XyBSD and Babbage-OS */ Comments are noise which compilers and static checkers cannot and should not examine. The intent should be expressed where compilers and static checkers can see it. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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