Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2009 17:15:42 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
       Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
       Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] compiler: Introduce __always_unused
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On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:50:52 +0800
Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> wrote:

Hi,

> I wrote some code which is used as compile-time checker, and the
> code should be elided after compile.
> +#define __always_unused
> __attribute__((unused)) 

I have a suggestion.
In addition to marking it attribute unused, would it be useful to also
put a section attribute as part of this, to a section that we can then
drop from the binary by way of the linker script ?


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