From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7796 invoked by alias); 7 Dec 2001 01:48:56 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: Sender: gcc-owner@gcc.gnu.org Received: (qmail 7760 invoked from network); 7 Dec 2001 01:48:55 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO fencepost.gnu.org) (199.232.76.164) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Dec 2001 01:48:55 -0000 Received: from adsl-216-102-199-253.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net ([216.102.199.253] helo=bothner.com) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1 (Debian)) id 16CA8E-000251-00 for ; Thu, 06 Dec 2001 20:48:54 -0500 Received: from bothner.com (bothner.com [216.102.199.253]) by bothner.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fB71m3g24082; Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:48:03 -0800 Message-ID: <3C101FD2.5010605@bothner.com> Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 18:12:00 -0000 From: Per Bothner User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.6+) Gecko/20011201 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David E. Weekly" CC: Dale Johannesen , gcc@gnu.org Subject: Re: -Wignored-returns? References: <9F56E022-EAAD-11D5-8923-003065C86F94@apple.com> <0ba601c17ebd$1c7409d0$5c044589@legato.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2001-12/txt/msg00342.txt.bz2 I think the text in trouble.texi is that "we don't think the compiler should warn about unused return values", but I don't read it as a refusal to provide such an option, as long as it is not the default, nor implicitly enabled by other flags. So I say go ahead and submit a patch. If the implementation is clean, I'd be in favor. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/per/