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

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: Table of "safe" methods to suppress "unused parameter" warnings?
Date 2014-04-18 08:58 -0700
Organization None to speak of
Message-ID <lnbnvy6347.fsf@nuthaus.mib.org> (permalink)
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Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> writes:
> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> writes:
[...]
>>> mathog <dmathog@gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Sometimes the same parameter list must be passed to a lot of
>>>> different functions, and some of those will not use all of the
>>>> parameters, resulting in some compilers emitting "unused
>>>> parameter" warnings.  Here are all of the methods I have found
>>>> so far for suppressing these [snipping the first kind;  the
>>>> second kind] of UNUSED's is more general and it is applied
>>>> within the function like:
>>>>
>>>>    int function (x){
>>>>       UNUSED(x);
>>>>
>>>> #define UNUSED(x) ((void)x)
>>>> #define UNUSED(x) x=x
>>>> #define UNUSED(x) ( *(volatile typeof(x) *)&(x) = (x); )
>>>> #define UNUSED(x) if(x);
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately the members of the second set tend to convert the
>>>> "unused parameter" message into some variant of a "this line
>>>> does nothing" message on other compilers.  For instance, that is
>>>> what the "x=x" form, which works with gcc does when clang sees
>>>> it.  [snip]

[...]

>> I have yet to see any reason to why anyone would need something
>> other than "(void) x;" as a way to say "do nothing with x".
>> [snip]
>
> Then apparently you haven't been paying attention, since one was
> given in the first message of the thread, and quoted both in my
> reply and your response to it (and shown again above).

We have an assertion that compilers "tend to" warn about several
forms of the UNUSED() macro.

Is there a concrete example of a compiler that complains about
((void)x)?

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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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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