Re: [PATCH 1/2] compiler: Introduce __always_unused

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:50:52 +0800
Li Zefan <lizf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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