On Sun, Jun 03, 2018 at 09:28:47PM +0000, Rick Macklem wrote:
> mmacy has sent me a bunch of warnings of the "variable set but not used" kind
> generated by gcc8.
> 
> When I've looked at the code, these are for RPC arguments I parse but do not
> use at this time.
> I'd  like to leave the code in place, since these arguments may be needed in 
> the
> future and it is hard to figure out how to get them years from now, when they
> might be needed.
> I can think of 3 ways to handle this:
> 1 - Get rid of the code. (As above, I'd rather not do this.)
> 2 - Wrap the code with "#if 0"/"#endif" or similar. I'll admit that I find 
> this rather
>       ugly and tends to make the code harder to follow.
> 3 - Leave the code and add a comment w.r.t. why the variables are set but not 
> used.
> 
> So, what do others think is the preferable alternative?
> (Or maybe you have a #4 that seems better than any of these.)
> 

CFLAGS+=-Wno-unused

-- 
Steve
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