Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings?

From	Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings?
Date	2014-04-01 02:04 +0300
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<878urqnf6j.fsf@bazspaz.fatphil.org> (permalink)
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ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) writes:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
> >True, but without any standard way of handling this then "(void) x;" is
> >the simplest and clearest way to have a statement with no effect.
> 
>   Actually (I admit that I might take your sentence out of its
>   context here), when »x« is a variable, »x;« is the simplest
>   and clearest way to have a statement with no effect that
>   mentions this variable »x«, and, otherwise, »;« is the
>   simplest and clearest way to have a statement with no effect.

But it's the "(void)" part that most clearly says "this is
not supposed to do have no effect", IMHO. The intention is
not to just have no effect, it's to be clearly deliberate too.

Phil
-- 
Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of 
ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather
than ridiculed. -- Immanuel Kant (1724-1804), lecture at Konigsberg, 1775

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Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2014-03-26 09:54 -0700
  Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Barry Schwarz <schwarzb@dqel.com> - 2014-03-26 10:55 -0700
    Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-03-26 11:13 -0700
    Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Javier Lopez <j.lopezg@aol.com> - 2014-03-26 19:45 +0100
      Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-26 19:55 +0000
  Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> - 2014-03-26 17:01 -0700
    Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Javier Lopez <j.lopezg@aol.com> - 2014-03-27 01:46 +0100
      Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Thomas Jahns <jahns@idontlikespam.dkrz.de> - 2014-03-27 09:34 +0100
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-03-27 10:52 +0000
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-03-27 13:10 +0100
  Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-27 21:50 +1300
    Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 17:32 -0700
      Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-31 09:31 +1300
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-03-31 11:31 +0200
          Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Alain Ketterlin <alain@dpt-info.u-strasbg.fr> - 2014-03-31 12:04 +0200
            Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-03-31 13:55 +0200
              Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-04-01 02:04 +0300
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-31 23:37 +0000
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-04-01 10:16 +0200
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-05-22 13:10 +0300
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-05-22 12:05 +0000
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-04-01 09:59 +0200
          Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2014-03-31 23:17 +1300
            Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-03-31 14:05 +0200
          Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-03-31 15:24 +0000
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-15 04:26 -0700
          Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Öö Tiib <ootiib@hot.ee> - 2014-04-23 07:31 -0700
            Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-04-23 08:45 -0700
  Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-03-29 17:21 -0700
    Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-03-31 13:26 +0200
      Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2014-03-31 07:37 -0400
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-03-31 14:12 +0200
      Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-18 07:00 -0700
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-04-18 15:02 +0000
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2014-04-18 08:58 -0700
          Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-04-27 08:11 -0700
            Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2014-04-27 15:26 +0000
              Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-06-10 08:30 -0700
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-11 00:57 +0300
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2014-06-10 22:12 +0000
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Phil Carmody <thefatphil_demunged@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-06-11 20:25 +0300
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Martin Shobe <martin.shobe@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-10 18:59 -0500
                Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2014-06-11 21:22 -0700
            Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2014-04-28 01:40 +0000
        Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2014-04-19 17:52 +0200
  Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings? Siri Crews <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2014-06-11 02:04 -0700

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