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		Someone on July 12, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How compatible is LibreSSL? "Still, -Wunused is helpful to find errors elsewhere in the code, so in these cases you might do something like unused_param = unused_param;" It is better to comment out the name of the argument in the function header: `void foo( int x, int /* unused */) { … }` C compilers know not to complain about that second argument (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1486904/how-do-i-best-sil...)

hkl on July 12, 2014 [–]

That's C++, not C. In C, the parameter name must be specified in a definition. I tried with 7 compilers, and none of them allow it as an extension, either, as they all consider it a fatal error.

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