Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 11/27/2013 09:30 AM, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >>> Are you using "ignore_value" because of the gcc bug that ignores the
> >>> official
> >>> method to tell that the return code is ignored intentionally:
> >>>
> >>> (void) write(fd, buf, len);
>
> The C standard does not document that '(void) write(...)' is required to
> avoid diagnostics, so I don't see the gcc behavior as a bug (yes, it's
> annoying behavior, but that doesn't make it incorrect behavior).
Well, there is a more than 30 year history of lint that causes
'(void) write(...)' to be accepted without a warning.
Jörg
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