On Tuesday 22 April 2008 19:26, Eric Sandeen wrote:
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> It would be a huge undertaking.
> 
> Just building xfs w/ the warning in place exposes tons of unused
> parameter warnings from outside xfs as well.

I was grepping them away.

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> But, if it was deemed important enough, you could go annotate them as
> unused, I suppose, and hack away at it...  Does marking as unused just
> shut up the warning or does it let gcc do further optimizations?

It just shuts up the warning. It is still useful - suppresses
false positives.

I didn't check whether gcc is clever enough to reuse stack space
occupied by unused parameter(s) as a free space for automatic
variables. In theory it is allowed to do that and reduce stack usage
that way.
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