How do I turn off a static code analysis warning on a line by line warning in CDT (C code)?

Question

We have a project using CDT in Eclipse. It\'s an old project that we just imported into Eclipse, and I want to ensure we start using static code analysis to find any weirdn

Answer 1

These settings are located under Window -> Preferences -> C/C++ -> Code Analysis. You can customize the settings. For example if you pick No break at the end of case, you can define the comment that suppresses the warning. By default it's "no break". So coincidentally copy/pasting the warning message into the comment worked in your case:

As you can see the text doesn't have to be an exact match and it doesn't seem to be case sensitive either.

Referring to your follow-up question about unused variables: When you customize Unused variable in file scope you can define variable names that should be ignored:

There are two cryptic predefined exceptions "@(#)" and "$Id". Unfortunately I couldn't find any official documentation so I went looking into the source. It looks like the checker simply tests if a variable name contains() any of the specified exceptions. If it does, the warning is suppressed.

Outside of Eclipse CDT, there's the popular void-casting trick. If the compiler warns about an unused variable, cast it to void. This operation has no effect, so it's safe, but from the perspective of the compiler that variable is now used. I usually wrap it in a macro to make abundantly clear what I'm doing, e.g.

#define UNUSED(var) (void)(var)

void foobar()
{
    int b;     // not used. 
    UNUSED(b); // now it's used
}