From: mdruiter AT cs DOT vu DOT nl
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Subject: Re: __attribute__((unused)), gcc get's confused...?
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 12:06:41 GMT
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T.E.Dickey <dickey AT shell DOT clark DOT net> wrote:
> `unused'
>      This attribute, attached to a function, means that the function is
>      meant to be possibly unused.  GNU CC will not produce a warning
>      for this function.  GNU C++ does not currently support this
>      attribute as definitions without parameters are valid in C++.

Well, this is for *functions* where we were looking for a way to
ignore a *parameter* of a function. I don't understand "as definitions
without parameters are valid in C++", I think. Does that apply here?

Thanks for digging in the docs.

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Groeten, *Michel*       _http://www.cs.vu.nl/~mdruiter_
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