linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kbuild: clang: disable unused variable warnings only when constant

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Date:   Wed, 7 Feb 2018 09:22:41 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        segher@...nel.crashing.org, Greg Hackmann <ghackmann@...gle.com>,
        Linux Kbuild mailing list <linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kbuild: clang: disable unused variable warnings only when constant

2018-02-07 8:46 GMT+09:00 Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>:
> Currently, GCC disables -Wunused-const-variable, but not
> -Wunused-variable, so warns unused variables if they are
> non-constant.
>
> While, Clang does not warn unused variables at all regardless of
> the const qualifier because -Wno-unused-const-variable is implied
> by the stronger option -Wno-unused-variable.
>
> Disable -Wunused-const-variable instead of -Wunused-variable so that
> GCC and Clang work in the same way.
>
> Signed-off-by: Prasad Sodagudi <psodagud@...eaurora.org>
> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>

Applied to linux-kbuild/kbuild.   Thanks!


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Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada