warn_unused_result attribute (Re: mingw32 compile fixes (Re: [GITGRUB] New menu interface (implementation)))

[Robert Millan]

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 12:46:06AM +0800, Bean wrote:
> Some system such as ubuntu karmic define write using
> warn_unused_result attribute, which cause a warning when return value
> of write is not used. As grub compile with -Werror, this turn into
> error, to work around it, use something like this:
> 
>  ssize_t tmp = write(bcat, buf, 2048);
>  (void) tmp;

Isn't "(void) write (bcat, buf, 2048)" enough?

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