If you have code that looks like this (showing the header content only, not the implementation):

@protocol MyProtocol


- method;


@end


@interface MySuperclass


- method;


@end


@interface MySubclass : MySuperclass <MyProtocol>


@end

GCC will generate a warning at compile time that MyClass seems to be missing a method implementation required by MyProtocol. You can suppress these warnings using the -Wno-protocol switch; from the GCC man page:

-Wno-protocol
If a class is declared to implement a protocol, a warning is issued
for every method in the protocol that is not implemented by the
class.  The default behavior is to issue a warning for every method
not explicitly implemented in the class, even if a method implemen-
tation is inherited from the superclass.  If you use the -Wno-pro-
tocol option, then methods inherited from the superclass are con-
sidered to be implemented, and no warning is issued for them.

There are reasons why you might actually want to see these warnings which I won't go into here (for more info check the objc-language mailing list archives), but if you're sure that you want to be rid of them, then the -Wno-protocol switch is for you. It certainly beats declaring a bunch of methods like this in your subclass:

@implementation MySubclass


- method
{
    return [super method];
}


@end

And in many cases it is better than the alternative of dumping the formal protocol and opting for an informal one (defined as a category in a parent or root class) instead.