[vtk-developers] Unused arguments warnings

[Sean McBride]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 15:01:33 -0400, David Doria said:

>I've seen a handful of unused args warnings when compiling lately (argc and
>argv in some tests).
>
>Should I change them to
>
>int TestName(int, char*[])
>
>or
>
>int TestName(int vtkNotUsed(argc), char*vtkNotUsed(argv)[])
>
>?
>
>Is the idea of the vtkNotUsed macro just that the code explicitly says "we
>are not using this" rather than making the reader wonder if they forgot to
>name the variable?

Another option is:

int TestName(int argc, char* argv[])
{
  (void)argc;
  (void)argv;

}

which is done is some VTK files... Dunno if there is a preferred convention.

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