Re: [patch 01/10] compiler: define __attribute_unused__

[Andrew Morton]

On Tue, 1 May 2007 22:53:52 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 09:28:18PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote:
> > > +#define __attribute_unused__		__attribute__((unused))
> > 
> > Suggest __unused which is shorter and looks compiler-neutral.
> > 
> 
> So you would also suggest renaming __attribute_used__ and all 48 of its 
> uses to __used?

Or __needed or __unneeded.  None of them mean much to me and I'd be forever
going back to the definition to work out what was intended.

We're still in search of a name, IMO.  But once we have it, yeah, we should
update all present users.  We can do that over time: retain the old and new
definitions for a while.

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