git/list[1] front-page[2] threads[3] people[4] search[5] about
 

Re: [PATCH] fast-import.c: Silence build warning

From
Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2009, 06:30 UTC
Message-ID
<81b0412b0908312330t3135d033o14a6cb73797edf18@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To
<d2e97e800908311655t553d6c4bo6ed45fe37819c1d8@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 01:55, Michael Wookey<michaelwookey@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Otherwise a clever compiler has every right to complain "the variable
>> unused is assigned but never used."
>
>  I get no other warnings, so does that make gcc less than clever? ;-)

It only does what it is instructed to do: the function is annotated with warn_unused_result attribute. What really is annoying is someones choice of the functions to annotate.

Previous: Stephen Boyd
Message 9 of 9 in “fast-import.c: Silence build warning”
  1. fast-import.c: Silence build warningMichael Wookey, Aug 31, 2009
  2. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  3. Alex RiesenAug 31, 2009
  4. Sverre RabbelierAug 31, 2009
  5. Michael WookeyAug 31, 2009
  6. Junio C HamanoAug 31, 2009
  7. Michael WookeyAug 31, 2009
  8. Stephen BoydSep 1, 2009
  9. Alex RiesenSep 1, 2009

Read the whole thread, see it on lore, or plain text.

$ cat FOOTERMessages come from the public archive at lore.kernel.org/git, fetched every hour. The front page is chosen and written each morning by an AI editor and can be wrong; the threads themselves are the record. About and API. For agents: an MCP server at https://gitlist.dev/mcp, and any thread, story or person page as Markdown by adding .md to its URL (or sending Accept: text/markdown). Details in /llms.txt.