Re: Config and "unused variables"

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-09-25 08:07:14

--- In boost_at_y..., John Maddock <John_Maddock_at_c...> wrote:
> 
> >I currently have need of this for Boost.Threads, so... Any 
thoughts 
> >or comments on this?
> 
> Just a thought but whats wrong with:
> 
> (void) parameter_name;
> 
> which suppresses the warning and doesn't generate any code, even 
when
> inline expansions are turned off in the compiler....

Nothing other than readability.  This doesn't document (within the 
code) anything, except to a very few with intimate knowledge of this 
trick *AND* who use it frequently.

Bill Kempf