I would like to know what flag to use in order to avoid warning messages that appear when compiling a C/C++ parallel using mpicc. More specifically, I prefer not to have my screen of messages referring to unused variables,e.g. warning: unused variable
Thanks
Most (?) MPI compiler wrappers will pass compiler options to the compiler that they wrap. so you should be able to use the same flag, for mpicc
, that you would use for your compiler unwrapped.
For a better answer: consult the source of your installation of mpicc
which is generally implemented (on Linux systems) as a shell script. Many versions also respond to -help
and similar.
As pointed by High Performance Mark, mpicc
is simply a wrapper around the real compiler toolchain. There is an almost standard option that (almost) all wrappers understand: -showme
. It shows you what flags exactly get passed on to the compiler, e.g.:
$ mpicc -showme
icc <lots of preprocessor flags> -fexceptions -pthread \
<lots of linker flags> -lmpi -losmcomp -lrdmacm -libverbs -lrt \
-lnsl -lutil -lpsm_infinipath -lbat -llsf -ldl -lm -lnuma
Examine these options, consult your compiler's manual and find out how to suppress the warnings.
depending on your compiler , you can add flags to avoid such warning messages, for instance -w
is the GCC-wide option to disable warning messages.