From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org>, Karl Wiberg <kha@treskal.com>,
Dirk-Jan Binnema <djcb.bulk@gmail.com>
Cc: "notmuch@notmuchmail org" <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>,
djcb@djcbsoftware.nl
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] * avoid gcc 4.4.1 compiler warnings due to ignored write return values
Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 07:57:30 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ljhmadqt.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ws1h48up.fsf@59A2.org>
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On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:24:46 +0100, Jed Brown <jed@59A2.org> wrote:
> >From the gcc man page:
>
> -Wunused-value
> Warn whenever a statement computes a result that is explicitly
> not used. To suppress this warning cast the unused expression
> to void. This includes an expression-statement or the left-
> hand side of a comma expression that contains no side effects.
> For example, an expression such as x[i,j] will cause a
> warning, while x[(void)i,j] will not.
>
> This warning is enabled by -Wall.
>
> But I'm confused here because I don't currently see any warnings with
> gcc-4.4.2. Actually this must be a bug because I get no warnings for
> the blatantly unused
>
> malloc(5);
I'm guessing that the -Wunused-value warning doesn't consider values
computed by function calls.
> with -Wall -Wextra -pedantic. Anyway, if your system headers specify
> __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) for write, then you could be running
> into this bug/feature
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=35579
Yes, this is the attribute that's triggering the warnings. I poked
around in the glibc headers to see how to get this warning myself, and I
finally found:
make CFLAGS="-O -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE"
That makes the warning appear even with gcc 4.3.4, (and the definitions
in the headers suggest it will work with any gcc >= 4.1).
So I've pushed the patch now, (with an updated commit message to reflect
the above analysis).
-Carl
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-12-01 15:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-23 6:20 [PATCH 1/2] * avoid gcc 4.4.1 compiler warnings due to ignored write return values Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2009-11-23 7:34 ` Karl Wiberg
2009-11-23 11:11 ` Dirk-Jan Binnema
2009-11-23 13:19 ` Karl Wiberg
2009-11-23 14:24 ` Jed Brown
2009-11-23 16:14 ` Dirk-Jan Binnema
2009-11-23 16:38 ` Jed Brown
2009-12-01 15:57 ` Carl Worth [this message]
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