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Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2001 14:37:37 +0200
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Subject: Re: Option -Wunused & STL
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Andris Pavenis wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Alex Vinokur wrote:
> 
> It is so also with gcc-3.0.X after adding missing 'using namespace std;'
> and I don't expect changes, as it's not always simple to say when object
> is not only unused but really useless

Right - an object is always 'used' in the sense that its constructor is
invoked.  Even if that constructor is the default one, the object could
have subobjects that have non-trivial constructors with important side
effects.  gcc would have to inspect all subobjects to decide whether or
not the variable is really 'unused'.