diff --git a/bat/bat.c b/bat/bat.c
index e88c65f..ea04ed9 100644
--- a/bat/bat.c
+++ b/bat/bat.c
@@ -158,7 +158,8 @@ static void get_format(struct bat *bat, char *optarg)
 	}
 }
 
-static inline int thread_wait_completion(struct bat *, pthread_t id, int **val)
+static inline int thread_wait_completion(struct bat *bat ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED,
+					 pthread_t id, int **val)
 {
 	int err;
 
diff --git a/bat/common.c b/bat/common.c
index 9ff9405..470a7e6 100644
--- a/bat/common.c
+++ b/bat/common.c
@@ -47,7 +47,8 @@ static int update_fmt_to_bat(struct bat *bat, struct chunk_fmt *fmt)
 }
 
 /* calculate frames and update to bat */
-static int update_frames_to_bat(struct bat *bat, struct wav_chunk_header *header, FILE *)
+static int update_frames_to_bat(struct bat *bat, struct wav_chunk_header *header,
+				FILE *file ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
 {
 	/* The number of analyzed captured frames is arbitrarily set to half of
 	   the number of frames of the wav file or the number of frames of the
diff --git a/bat/common.h b/bat/common.h
index a9bae5d..bb51b0d 100644
--- a/bat/common.h
+++ b/bat/common.h
@@ -13,6 +13,11 @@
  *
  */
 
+#ifndef ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED
+/** do not print warning (gcc) when function parameter is not used */
+#define ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED __attribute__ ((__unused__))
+#endif
+
 #define TEMP_RECORD_FILE_NAME		"/tmp/bat.wav.XXXXXX"
 #define DEFAULT_DEV_NAME		"default"