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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] ramfs question
Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2008 09:00:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <dd6fe68a0812270900o1461f370xf4a83ad1d06cb09f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9d1af4bafb8e5eb6e740176a14f89551@9grid.es>

> + Qid q;
> + ...
> + q = fs.tree->root->dir.qid;
>
> Because *q* is not longer used.
> Why *q* is defined and assigned?

Pragmatically, because the Plan 9 C compilers
don't warn about set and not used for struct values.
It's certainly just a dreg.

Russ


      reply	other threads:[~2008-12-27 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-26 12:33 kix
2008-12-27 17:00 ` Russ Cox [this message]

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