gratuitous gcc warnings: unused function arguments?

[Tim Kientzle]

Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 16, 2005 at 10:44:14AM -0800, Tim Kientzle wrote:
> 
>>Giorgos Keramidas suggested:
>>
>>>%      (void)argv;
>>
>>I first saw this idiom for marking unused
>>arguments over 10 years ago and have used
>>it extensively since then.  Very portable;
>>highly recommended.
> 
> 
> except of course for the compilers that warn about no effect...

I've not seen that issue with this particular
idiom.  The compilers I've seen seem to
recognize this as a special case.

No doubt there are exceptions.

Tim