Eric Blake <[email protected]> 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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily
