https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=71402
--- Comment #4 from andysem at mail dot ru --- (In reply to Martin Sebor from comment #2) > I just happened to be looking into this report and it's not clear to me > whether or not the warning should be expected in this case. The > documentation suggests it should be: > > -Wunused-variable > Warn whenever a local or static variable is unused aside from its > declaration. For the record, I think the warning should not be emitted in the case I presented in this bug. Yes, the variable itself is not used anywhere beside its declaration, but nonetheless the declaration is not useless (i.e. its whole point is to invoke the dynamic initialization). I think the documentation should be updated to reflect that the warning should not be emitted when the variable declaration involves dynamic initialization with possible side effects.
