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Re: [PATCH] Sparse fixes for http-fetch

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HAH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date
Oct 13, 2005, 17:51 UTC
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Peter Hagervall wrote:
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> This patch cleans out all sparse warnings from http-fetch.c
> 
> I'm a bit uncomfortable with adding extra #ifdefs to avoid either
> 'mixing declaration with code' or 'unused variable' warnings, but I
> figured that since those functions are already littered with #ifdefs I
> might just get away with it. Comments?
>

For the first, you can use extra brackets to create blocks in which declarations can happen; for the latter, you can (void)var; to specify that a certain variable may be legitimately unused under some circumstances.

	-hpa
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