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Re: _GL_UNUSED


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: _GL_UNUSED
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 05:57:10 +0200

> Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 18:22:38 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> 
> Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> > It's OK to use _GL_UNUSED in the sources, or there's some preference
> > not to use it for some reason?
> 
> The typical practice is to configure with --enable-gcc-warnings. 
> Turning on all GCC warnings can cause more trouble than it cures. 

At least on Windows, it does: you get gobs of useless warnings about
mismatch between signed and unsigned char pointers being passed to
some C library functions.  That warning gets my vote for being the
most useless compiler warning ever invented.



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