diff --git a/src/unused.h b/src/unused.h
index b5ac8411dfb8ed819360bc65d85616d15e6eaccf..ecaa4de7649c1b47dae1b300c44d395c093ee3b2 100644 (file)
--- a/src/unused.h
+++ b/src/unused.h
-/* define a macro to wrap variables in that would
- otherwhise generate UNUSED variable warnings */
+/* define a macro to wrap variables that would
+ otherwise generate UNUSED variable warnings
+ Note that GCC's attribute unused only supresses the warning, so
+ it is perfectly safe to declare something unused although it is not.
+*/
#ifdef UNUSED
#elif defined(__GNUC__)