Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 09:50:19 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Richard B. Johnson" <root@chaos.analogic.com>
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To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
cc: Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
       David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004, Alan Cox wrote:

> On Iau, 2004-10-14 at 23:08, Russell King wrote:
>> It's the "later compilers" which I'm worried about here - I think they
>> defined "unused" to mean "this really really isn't used and you can
>> discard it".  Hence my concern with the above.
>
> This was the explanation I got some time ago
>
> -- quote --
>
> So "used" cases that used "unused" could break, though older compilers
> in essence used "unused" to mean both "used" and "unused".  Since
> "unused" becomes useless for using in "used" cases, we now must be sure
> to use "used" when that's the use that's useful.
> 			-- Roland McGrath
>
>
> I found it so helpful it became a .sig 8)
>
Yes. Just like "less" is more than "more"......and whos on first base.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
Penguin : Linux version 2.6.8 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips).
             Note 96.31% of all statistics are fiction.

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