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Re: [PATCH 2/2] grep: prefer UNUSED to MAYBE_UNUSED for pcre allocators

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Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
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Aug 29, 2024, 20:27 UTC
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2024 at 4:10 PM Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> We prove custom malloc/free callbacks for the pcre library to use. Those
s/prove/provide/
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> take an extra "data" parameter, but we don't use it. Back when these
> were added in 513f2b0bbd (grep: make PCRE2 aware of custom allocator,
> 2019-10-16), we only had MAYBE_UNUSED. But these days we have UNUSED,
> which we should prefer, as it will let the compiler inform us if the
> code changes to actually use the parameters.
>
> I also moved the annotations to come after the variable name, which is
> how we typically spell it.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
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Message 4 of 7 in “clean up some MAYBE_UNUSED cases”
  1. 0/2 clean up some MAYBE_UNUSED casesJeff King, Aug 29, 2024
  2. 1/2 gc: drop MAYBE_UNUSED annotation from used parameterJeff King, Aug 29, 2024
  3. 2/2 grep: prefer UNUSED to MAYBE_UNUSED for pcre allocatorsJeff King, Aug 29, 2024
  4. Eric SunshineAug 29, 2024
  5. Patrick SteinhardtAug 30, 2024
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 30, 2024
  7. Junio C HamanoAug 29, 2024

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