Re: [Etherboot-developers] tidy ups

[Georg B. <Geo...@po...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: ke...@us...
Date: Monday, March 17, 2003 2:24 am
Subject: [Etherboot-developers] tidy ups

> Does anybody know how to declare the unused
attribute on function
> parameters, and just as important, does it work
with older gcc 
> versionslike 2.95?

I think it works in 2.95, and the syntax is
__attribute__ ((unused))
 
> Does anybody know how to get rid of these
warnings? I assume this is
> because they are now predeclared in gcc 3.x?
> 
> arch/i386/include/bits/string.h:254: warning:
static declaration 
> for `strncmp' follows non-static
> arch/i386/include/bits/string.h:277: warning:
static declaration 
> for `strlen' follows non-static

They are there because the definition of
strlen/strcmp is non static, but the declaration in
the hedaer file is static. If you change "static" to
"extern" in the header file, the warnings go away. I
wonder why the "static" is in the header file at all?

Georg