From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:51:29 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Sparse fixes for http-fetch
Message-ID: <434E9EA1.3030002@zytor.com>
In-Reply-To: <20051013174203.GA6860@peppar.cs.umu.se>

Peter Hagervall wrote:
> 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