aboutsummaryrefslogtreecommitdiffstats
path: root/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
diff options
context:
space:
mode:
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/CodingGuidelines')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/CodingGuidelines5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index d0fc7cfe60..3263245b03 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -262,8 +262,9 @@ For C programs:
like "error: unused parameter 'foo' [-Werror=unused-parameter]",
which indicates that a function ignores its argument. If the unused
parameter can't be removed (e.g., because the function is used as a
- callback and has to match a certain interface), you can annotate the
- individual parameters with the UNUSED keyword, like "int foo UNUSED".
+ callback and has to match a certain interface), you can annotate
+ the individual parameters with the UNUSED (or MAYBE_UNUSED)
+ keyword, like "int foo UNUSED".
- We try to support a wide range of C compilers to compile Git with,
including old ones. As of Git v2.35.0 Git requires C99 (we check