Subject: Re: attribute warn_unused_result
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
Reply-To: arjanv@redhat.com
To: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Cc: linux kernel mailing list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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References: <413DA83A.7010704@kolivas.org>
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Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 14:38:08 +0200
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On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 14:23, Con Kolivas wrote:
> Gcc3.4.1 has recently been complaining of a number of unused results=20
> from function with attribute warn_unused_result set. I'm not sure of how=20
> you want to tackle this so I'm avoiding posting patches. Should we=20
> remove the attribute (seems the likely option) or set some dummy=20
> variable (sounds stupid now that I ask it).

that attribute is supposed to only be set for functions you really ought
to check the result for.... so how about checking/using the result ?

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