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1 | /* ignore a function return without a compiler warning |
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3 | Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
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5 | This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify | |
6 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by | |
7 | the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or | |
8 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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10 | This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
11 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
12 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
13 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
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15 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
16 | along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ | |
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18 | /* Written by Jim Meyering. */ | |
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20 | /* Use these functions to avoid a warning when using a function declared with | |
21 | gcc's warn_unused_result attribute, but for which you really do want to | |
22 | ignore the result. Traditionally, people have used a "(void)" cast to | |
23 | indicate that a function's return value is deliberately unused. However, | |
24 | if the function is declared with __attribute__((warn_unused_result)), | |
25 | gcc issues a warning even with the cast. | |
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27 | Caution: most of the time, you really should heed gcc's warning, and | |
28 | check the return value. However, in those exceptional cases in which | |
29 | you're sure you know what you're doing, use this function. | |
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31 | For the record, here's one of the ignorable warnings: | |
32 | "copy.c:233: warning: ignoring return value of 'fchown', | |
33 | declared with attribute warn_unused_result". */ | |
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35 | static inline void ignore_value (int i) { (void) i; } | |
36 | static inline void ignore_ptr (void* p) { (void) p; } | |
37 | /* FIXME: what about aggregate types? */ |