[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #221: Simfactory should complain about unused arguments

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#221: Simfactory should complain about unused arguments
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  Reporter:  eschnett    |       Owner:  mthomas
      Type:  defect      |      Status:  new    
  Priority:  major       |   Milestone:         
 Component:  SimFactory  |     Version:         
Resolution:              |    Keywords:         
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Comment (by rhaas):

 PETSc has the same problem: a central options database of all command line
 options but no central place where options are defined so the main code
 does not know which options are valid. Their solution is to warn if at the
 end of the run, there are any never used options left in the database. The
 attached patch implements this feature for command line options (but does
 nothing for eg options taken from machine databases, since those are
 always present). This is a band-aid until we can come up with something
 better. It also does nothing about unused arguments, since there does not
 seem to be a central location where access to arguments could be tracked.

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