Re: [boost] Anoying borland warnings

From: William E. Kempf (williamkempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-21 09:21:56

From: "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]>
> -w-8001 seems like a slam-dunk to me. Go ahead and patch borland-tools.jam
> if you like.
> -w-8080 seems a little bit less like a great idea. That warning can help
to
> keep flotsam and jetsam out of our code.
>
> There are several ways to suppress unused variable warnings explicitly:
>
>     (void)x; // works with most compilers
>
>
>     template <class T> inline void unused(T const&) {}
>     unused(x); // works with all compilers, AFAIK

And I suggested adding this construct to Boost at one point.  I'd like to
re-raise that suggestion.  Though it's not precisely a config concept, it is
used solely to suppress warnings usually caused by "portable" constructs, so
I'd be happy to see this in <boost/config.hpp>, though anywhere else would
work as well.

Bill Kempf