Re: [boost] Re: Config and "unused variables"

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-09-26 06:13:02

At 12:49 AM 9/26/2001, Scott McCaskill wrote:

 >> Is the issue that a and b are in fact use in some control paths, and so
 >> can't just be commented out (or outright removed), yet the compiler is
 >> warning because they aren't used in all control paths?
 >>
 >
 >I have seen cases where assert() was used to check the return value of a
 >function.  In such cases, the return value must be stored in a temporary,
 >and as a result there may be warnings in non-debug builds.

But isn't the usual practice in that case to wrap the temporary and store 
to it in an #ifndef NDEBUG?

--Beman