http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51579
--- Comment #3 from Paolo Carlini <paolo.carlini at oracle dot com> 2011-12-16 15:45:15 UTC --- To be clear, I didn't mean to imply that somebody here is going to add unnamed parameters to C, only, that apparently *you* are seeing attribute((unused)) as something meant to solve the same sort of problem (your talking about signatures, etc, confirmed my suspects) whereas I think those are different problems. To repeat, I think it's perfectly normal for a parameter marked attribute((unused)) to be actually used. Anyway, I'm not maintaining the C front-end, maybe somebody is interested in your proposal, I have no idea.