Date: Mon, 25 Nov 1996 14:40:44 GMT
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From: p DOT dixon AT ic DOT ac DOT uk (Paul Dixon)
Subject: Re: DJGPP weekly digest for 23 Nov 1996

>   (1) It has many functions all of type void name(val N,val T1,val T2){...}.
> (val is an 8-byte class type which I declared). These functions MUST be all
> the same type, as their addresses are used as values. But some of these
> functions don't use some of their parameters. As a result the fault output
> is stuffed out with hundreds of `warning: unused parameter' warning lines.
> How to stop these warning and still use -Wall for its other useful properties?

Surely the 'correct ' solution is to declare functions as

name( val N, val, val ){...} 
                ^^   ^^
(parameter not named if never used)

This should prevent compiler warnings about unused parameters in only cases
where the warnings are expected...

Paul
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