From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#23640: 25.1.50; Getting rid of compiler warnings Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:19:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: <574E9E50.6040301@cs.ucla.edu> <2b96b91c-cb05-59a5-0458-05239b26da1b@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1465280431 25579 80.91.229.3 (7 Jun 2016 06:20:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 06:20:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 23640@debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton@gmail.com To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 07 08:20:19 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAN8-0001VY-7b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 08:20:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47215 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAN4-0000bY-8P for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:20:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59882) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMt-0000Wr-Uq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMr-00004t-TI for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:20:02 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:45010) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMr-0008WV-QH for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:20:01 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMr-0002vv-MD for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:20:01 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Richard Stallman Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 06:20:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 23640 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 23640-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B23640.146528039511256 (code B ref 23640); Tue, 07 Jun 2016 06:20:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 23640) by debbugs.gnu.org; 7 Jun 2016 06:19:55 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57347 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMl-0002vU-93 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:40543) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMj-0002vF-0I for 23640@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:19:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMc-0008QA-S1 for 23640@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:19:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:41741) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMb-0008PP-D0; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bAAMa-0000Vl-Md; Tue, 07 Jun 2016 02:19:44 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Paul Eggert on Mon, 6 Jun 2016 07:45:00 -0700) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:119198 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] Your patch seems reasonable to me. The reason I chose the name UNUSED is that I had in mind it would stand for just the initial value (without the =). But then I imitated the suggestion to include the =. You're right that name UNUSED is not appropriate for that. So I suggest char *ident_start = UNUSED; and so on. That should make it very clear, and the name fits what it does. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.