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Issue 8212043: [PATCH] Avoid warning when unused attribute applied to C++ member variables

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Created:
11 years ago by tejohnson
Modified:
9 years, 7 months ago
Reviewers:
pinskia
CC:
gcc-patches_gcc.gnu.org
Base URL:
svn+ssh://gcc.gnu.org/svn/gcc/trunk/gcc/
Visibility:
Public.

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Total messages: 4
tejohnson
This patch allows the unused attribute to be used without warning on C++ class members, ...
11 years ago (2013-03-31 07:10:38 UTC) #1
pinskia_gmail.com
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson@google.com> wrote: > This patch ...
11 years ago (2013-03-31 08:36:31 UTC) #2
tejohnson
On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, ...
11 years ago (2013-03-31 16:39:46 UTC) #3
tejohnson
11 years ago (2013-04-08 17:18:55 UTC) #4
Ping.
Thanks, Teresa

On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 9:39 AM, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson@google.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 1:36 AM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 12:10 AM, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson@google.com>
wrote:
>>> This patch allows the unused attribute to be used without warning
>>> on C++ class members, which are of type FIELD_DECL. This is for
>>> compatibility with clang, which allows the attribute to be specified on
>>> class members and struct fields. It looks like more work would need to
>>> be done to implement the actual unused variable detection and warning
>>> on FIELD_DECLs, but this change will at least avoid the warning on the
>>> code that uses the unused attribute in these cases. The documentation at
>>> http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html also doesn't
>>> seem to preclude its use on C++ member variables.
>>
>> This also allows it on field in normal C case.  As far as I understand
>> they are fields and not variables in the normal programming sense
>> which is why the document does not mention them.
>
> That's true that this change will also allow the unused attribute on
> normal C struct fields. I just verified that clang also allows this,
> and it could potentially be taken advantage of to warn on unused
> fields as well.
>
> Teresa
>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Andrew Pinski
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Bootstrapped and tested on x86-64-unknown-linux-gnu. Ok for trunk?
>>>
>>> 2013-03-30  Teresa Johnson  <tejohnson@google.com>
>>>
>>>         * c-family/c-common.c (handle_unused_attribute): Handle
>>>         FIELD_DECL for C++ class members.
>>>
>>> Index: c-family/c-common.c
>>> ===================================================================
>>> --- c-family/c-common.c (revision 197266)
>>> +++ c-family/c-common.c (working copy)
>>> @@ -6753,6 +6753,7 @@ handle_unused_attribute (tree *node, tree name, tr
>>>
>>>        if (TREE_CODE (decl) == PARM_DECL
>>>           || TREE_CODE (decl) == VAR_DECL
>>> +         || TREE_CODE (decl) == FIELD_DECL
>>>           || TREE_CODE (decl) == FUNCTION_DECL
>>>           || TREE_CODE (decl) == LABEL_DECL
>>>           || TREE_CODE (decl) == TYPE_DECL)
>>>
>>> --
>>> This patch is available for review at http://codereview.appspot.com/8212043
>
>
>
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> Teresa Johnson | Software Engineer | tejohnson@google.com | 408-460-2413



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Teresa Johnson | Software Engineer | tejohnson@google.com | 408-460-2413
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