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Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 18:40:34 -0800
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: How to kill off "value compu..." warning
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Ole Laursen wrote:

> I compile using the -Wall switch, so the compiler correctly tells me
> that "value computed is not used", but I don't have anything to use it
> for, as the constructor will take care off putting the pointer to the
> struct in the right list. Believe me, it can be very annoying to get ten
> of those warnings every time I recompile the code, so I just wondered if
> it is somehow possible to turn off the warning for only a few lines of
> code (I don't want to disable it entirely), or to fix the problem in
> another way (I suspect I might be doing something wrong by just ignoring
> the return value).

I'm not sure if this applies in C++, but in C you can disable GCC's
warning about an unused value or variable by casting it to `void'.
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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com