[Numpy-discussion] Toward a numpy build with warning: handling unused variable

[David Cournapeau]

On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 1:29 AM, Lisandro Dalcin <dalcinl at gmail.com> wrote:
> David, I second your approach. Furthermore, look how SWIG handles
> this, it is very similar to your proposal. The difference is that SWIG
> uses SWIGUNUSED for some autogenerated functions. Furthermore, it
> seems the SWIG developers protected the generated code taking into
> account GCC versions ;-) and the C++ case, and also Intel compilers.

Yes, I would have been surprised if most compilers do not have a way
to deal with that. I did not know icc handled __attribute__.

Charles, are you still have strongly against this, since this is in
the vein of what you suggested (tagging the argument) ?

cheers,

David