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Re: [ob] Eliminate /* ARGSUSED */
- From: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec at shout dot net>
- To: ac131313 at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:20:08 -0400
- Subject: Re: [ob] Eliminate /* ARGSUSED */
ac> I've committed the attached (btw, does anyone know the history of this
ac> habit? lint?).
Yes. It's a meaningful comment to lint.
A quick googling gives a glimpse:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/lint/toc.html
In C++ you can write this:
int foo (char *arg, int)
Which is an effective way of saying that the second argument cannot
be used.
I dunno if any version of C supports this nice syntax.
Michael C