On Sat, 11 Aug 2007, James E Keenan wrote:
> Bob Rogers wrote:
> > Compiling r20605 last night gave me 69291 occurrences of a warning
> > about warn_unused_result:
> >
> > /usr/bin/perl tools/build/c2str.pl --all
> > src/string.c
> > In file included from include/parrot/register.h:18,
> > from include/parrot/interpreter.h:138,
> > from include/parrot/global_setup.h:18,
> > from include/parrot/parrot.h:251,
> > from src/string.c:23:
> > include/parrot/stacks.h:56: warning: `warn_unused_result' attribute
> > directive ignored
> > include/parrot/stacks.h:56: warning: `warn_unused_result' attribute
> > directive ignored
> > include/parrot/stacks.h:68: warning: `warn_unused_result' attribute
> > directive ignored
> > include/parrot/stacks.h:80: warning: `warn_unused_result' attribute
> > directive ignored
> > include/parrot/stacks.h:99: warning: `warn_unused_result' attribute
> > directive ignored
> > . . .
> >
> > All tests pass, so this is purely at the annoyance level. I'm running
> > gcc 3.3.1; is it because that is too old?
> >
> >
>
> See http://rt.perl.org/rt3/Ticket/Display.html?id=44389. I'm suffering the
> same problem. It has increased the size of my 'make' output log by a factor
> of 100 -- though it has no affect, AFAICT, on anything happening in 'make
> test'. It is really f*!#$%ing annoying, isn't it.
>
I'm not sure if it's relevant, but this attribute is available with
gcc-3.3, but not with g++-3.3. If you apply my patch at the end of RT
#44379, you can at least be sure that Configure.pl has used the correct
compiler and linker in the test. It probably won't solve the problem,
but may narrow it down some.
--
Andy Dougherty [EMAIL PROTECTED]
