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From: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: gratuitous gcc warnings: unused function arguments?
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2005, David O'Brien wrote:

> We're not going to hack GCC to deal with this.  That is going way too
> far.  This is coming up because people are using high WARNS values in
> Makefiles.  Either back them down to a lower WARNS value; or we should
> add -Wno-unused-parameter to WARNS level 3. 

I'd be fine with simply pushing threshold for unused parameters up a few
notches on the warning scale.  I'd like to have access to the other
interesting warnings are WARNS=3 and WARNS=4 relating to qualifiers,
strings, etc.

Robert N M Watson