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From: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: getting rid of---"prog.c": line nnn: warning: var not used
Keywords: pedantic, warnings.
Message-ID: <9690@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 2 Jun 89 23:56:21 GMT
References: <115@orchid.warwick.ac.uk>
Sender: Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: shap@polya.Stanford.EDU (Jonathan S. Shapiro)
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In article <115@orchid.warwick.ac.uk> csuvt@warwick.ac.uk (Anton Carver (Wands)) writes:
>and the warning:
>"prog.c": line 4: warning: argc not used
>
>The solution:
>
>main ( int, char *argv[] )
>{
>	/* do something with argv, but not argc */
>}

We have adopted a slightly different solution, which preserves some
documentation value:

main ( int /* argc */, char *argv[] )
{
	/* do something with argv, but not argc */
}

It achieves the same purpose without loss of any information.

Jon