This patch is pending on trunk, but I would like to get this into google branches now as it is causing spurious warnings.
Google ref b/8496800. This patch allows the unused attribute to be used without warning on C++ class members, which are of type FIELD_DECL. This is for compatibility with clang, which allows the attribute to be specified on class members and struct fields. It looks like more work would need to be done to implement the actual unused variable detection and warning on FIELD_DECLs, but this change will at least avoid the warning on the code that uses the unused attribute in these cases. The documentation at http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Variable-Attributes.html also doesn't seem to preclude its use on C++ member variables. Bootstrapped and tested on x86-64-unknown-linux-gnu. Ok for google branches? 2013-04-09 Teresa Johnson <tejohn...@google.com> * c-family/c-common.c (handle_unused_attribute): Index: c-family/c-common.c =================================================================== --- c-family/c-common.c (revision 197640) +++ c-family/c-common.c (working copy) @@ -6320,6 +6320,7 @@ handle_unused_attribute (tree *node, tree name, tr if (TREE_CODE (decl) == PARM_DECL || TREE_CODE (decl) == VAR_DECL + || TREE_CODE (decl) == FIELD_DECL || TREE_CODE (decl) == FUNCTION_DECL || TREE_CODE (decl) == LABEL_DECL || TREE_CODE (decl) == TYPE_DECL) -- This patch is available for review at http://codereview.appspot.com/8580044
