Re: Turning off "Unit xxx not referenced" warnings?

["Alex R. Mosteo" <devnull@mailinator.com>]

Simon Wright wrote:
> "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com> writes:
> 
> 
>>"Nick Roberts" <nick.roberts@acm.org> wrote in message 
>>news:2uf20fF2au91oU1@uni-berlin.de...
>>
>>>>For GNAT,
>>>>
>>>>pragma Warnings (Off, <unit_name>);
>>>>
>>>>see section "1. Implementation Defined Pragmas" of the GNAT Reference
>>>>Manual.
>>>
>>>Also see pragma Unreferenced ibid.
>>
>>Yes, I've noticed that newer code coming out of ACT uses "Warnings (Off" 
>>rather than "Unreferenced" - no idea why... 
> 
> 
> I thought Unreferenced (X) was newer than Warnings (Off, X)?
> 
> The good thing about Unreferenced is that you get a warning if you do
> access the thing.
> 
> The slightly confusing thing is that it sort-of means "read": eg,
> declaring a BC lock, which locks during elaboration,
> 
>   L : Lock (Some_Semaphore'Access);
>   pragma Unreferenced (L);

But Unreferenced doesn't work for packages, I tried it... maybe that's 
the reason for using Warnings.