Author: Mahati Chamarthy <mahati.chamarthy@gmail.com> This patch removes an initialized variable which has never been used. The following Coccinelle semantic patch was used to make this transformation: @e@ identifier i; position p; type T; @@ extern T i@p; @@ type T; identifier i; constant C; position p != e.p; @@ – T i@p; The braces around …