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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: attribute warn_unused_result
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 16:57:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D4B4EEA.50907@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83r5bobz2k.fsf@gnu.org>

On 02/03/11 13:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>

>> I think the right thing to do is to adjust the code so as to make it
>> clear to the compiler that we thought about the issue and decided that
>> we really do want to ignore the return value.
> 
> You can't do that, not with this warning.

Actually, you can do it.  In the current trunk, the warning is
ignored for one particular case, documented by wrapping the
call in question by ignore_value (CALL).  This is in
src/sysdep.c, line 583.

We can wrap the other calls as needed.  I did just one call
for now, to illustrate the technique.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-04  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 41+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-03 14:57 attribute warn_unused_result Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 18:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-03 19:33   ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-03 20:42     ` Chad Brown
2011-02-03 21:30       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:58         ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04  0:17           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04  8:18           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 16:30             ` Chong Yidong
2011-02-03 21:40       ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04  8:41         ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04  8:51           ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-04 21:05         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-05  8:50           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:47       ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-04 21:08         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-04 21:15           ` Lennart Borgman
2011-02-05  9:03             ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05  8:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 22:08       ` Andy Moreton
2011-02-03 23:00         ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-03 21:16     ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-03 21:14   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04  0:57     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2011-02-04  8:29       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 15:50         ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-04 16:38           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 17:12             ` Tom Tromey
2011-02-05  0:11             ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-05  9:18               ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]               ` <yyxvd0yxwv1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
2011-02-06  1:34                 ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06  4:07                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06  7:04                     ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 10:21                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 18:58                         ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 19:27                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-06 20:11                             ` Paul Eggert
2011-02-06 21:26                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-04 21:14         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-05  8:57           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-05 16:01             ` Stefan Monnier

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