Re: attribute warn_unused_result

[Paul Eggert]

On 02/03/11 13:14, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>

>> I think the right thing to do is to adjust the code so as to make it
>> clear to the compiler that we thought about the issue and decided that
>> we really do want to ignore the return value.
> 
> You can't do that, not with this warning.

Actually, you can do it.  In the current trunk, the warning is
ignored for one particular case, documented by wrapping the
call in question by ignore_value (CALL).  This is in
src/sysdep.c, line 583.

We can wrap the other calls as needed.  I did just one call
for now, to illustrate the technique.