Re: [sharutils-4.11.1] Compilation warnings

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/06/12 14:02, Bruce Korb wrote:
> If the compiler is going to complain about
> an unused value when that value is explicitly cast to void, then it is a 
> compiler bug.
> They probably don't think so, but I think it is inexcusably stupid.

You're not the only one.  This problem is common enough
that we have a gnulib module that solves it.  With
gnulib you can use the ignore-value module and write this:

#include <ignore-value.h>
...
ignore_value (system (fil_name));