[Development] Compiler warnings

Harri Porten porten at froglogic.com
Wed Oct 15 10:09:18 CEST 2014


On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Smith Martin wrote:

> But maintaining binary compatibility is now a necessary facet of 
> software engineering, so maybe it is time for the C++ standard to 
> support it. A keyword could be added to the parameter declaration, 
> "compatibility" or "placeholder" for example, could precede a parameter 
> declaration that is kept for binary compatibility. The compiler would 
> not warn that the parameter was not used.

... and emit an error if it is :)

Harri.



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