Re: git: 3dbe05f61b65 - main - Suppress unused variable warning in mfi.c

From: John Baldwin <jhb_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 22:19:23 UTC
On 7/20/22 9:50 AM, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> The branch main has been updated by dim:
> 
> URL: https://cgit.FreeBSD.org/src/commit/?id=3dbe05f61b65a73582aefdc2ee5a50ad2b4390ef
> 
> commit 3dbe05f61b65a73582aefdc2ee5a50ad2b4390ef
> Author:     Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
> AuthorDate: 2022-07-19 19:38:41 +0000
> Commit:     Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>
> CommitDate: 2022-07-20 15:13:49 +0000
> 
>      Suppress unused variable warning in mfi.c
>      
>      With clang 15, the following -Werror warnings are produced:
>      
>          sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c:3698:6: error: variable 'timedout' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>                  int timedout;
>                      ^
>          sys/dev/mfi/mfi.c:3742:6: error: variable 'timedout' set but not used [-Werror,-Wunused-but-set-variable]
>                  int timedout = 0;
>                      ^
>      
>      Here, 'timedout' are variables that are only used when debugging,
>      requiring #if 0 statements to be modified. Mark the variables as
>      potentially unused, to suppress the warnings.
>      
>      MFC after:      3 days

FWIW, when making similar changes recently if a variable was truly only
ever used under an #ifdef or #if 0, I tended to move the variable under
the #ifdef or #if 0 fully and tried to avoid using __unused unless the
changes were going to be very invasive.

-- 
John Baldwin