In message <20120727125134.ga58...@onelab2.iet.unipi.it>, Luigi Rizzo writes:

>A comment might be used to explain the intention in even more detail:
>
>       (void)foo;      /* unused on XyBSD and Babbage-OS */

Comments are noise which compilers and static checkers cannot and
should not examine.

The intent should be expressed where compilers and static checkers
can see it.

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