changed in balay/fix-fortran-unused_variables and merged to next. Satish On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Satish Balay wrote:

The change was done long ago.. I don't remember the reason [and it wasn't documented in the commit message :(]

https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/commits/aa4d2986619717de6f4da384f5fcafb392...

Perhaps we should revert it.

I see a bunch of warnings with petsc fortran includes/examples. Will fix and push..

Satish

On Sun, 10 Apr 2016, Lisandro Dalcin wrote:

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Why is this warning silenced? Why should we treat Fortran different than C/C++ regarding unused variables? Maybe some old gfortran confused local variables with dummy arguments?