The program to be attached produces the warning [...@dhcp-100-2-40 ~]$ gcc gb.c gb.c: In function main: gb.c:11: warning: ignoring return value of foo, declared with attribute warn_unused_result
which is expected. However, it should also produce a warning for line 12, which is exactly the same except a dummy variable is declared. Using built-in specs. Target: i386-redhat-linux Configured with: ../configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-bugurl=http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla --enable-bootstrap --enable-shared --enable-threads=posix --enable-checking=release --with-system-zlib --enable-__cxa_atexit --disable-libunwind-exceptions --enable-languages=c,c++,objc,obj-c++,java,fortran,ada --enable-java-awt=gtk --disable-dssi --enable-plugin --with-java-home=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-1.5.0.0/jre --enable-libgcj-multifile --enable-java-maintainer-mode --with-ecj-jar=/usr/share/java/eclipse-ecj.jar --disable-libjava-multilib --with-cpu=generic --build=i386-redhat-linux Thread model: posix gcc version 4.3.2 20081105 (Red Hat 4.3.2-7) (GCC) -- Summary: warn_unused_result fails to produce warning Product: gcc Version: unknown Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P3 Component: c AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: sandmann at daimi dot au dot dk GCC build triplet: i386-redhat-linux GCC host triplet: i386-redhat-linux GCC target triplet: i386-redhat-linux http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=39808