Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 10:35:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: Mysterious id in dbgcom.c
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On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Richard Dawe wrote:

> > > dbgcom.c:36: warning: `id' defined but not used
> > >
> > > What good is it? Some version control or something?
> > 
> > Yes.  See src/ident.c and src/makefile.lib
> > 
> > You need the 'id' in that file to force the ident string (in id_dbg.o)
> > to get pulled in to every executable using that library.
> 
> Perhaps you could put '__attribute__((unused))' on id's definition, to
> stop gcc from generating the warning?

I don't think this will work, but maybe it's worth to try.

If not, just throw in some dummy line, like "id = id;", to shut up the
compiler.