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[coreutils] ignore-value.h considered harmful


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: [coreutils] ignore-value.h considered harmful
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 05:56:54 +0200
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Re that recent change to sort.c to insert a call to ignore_value.

This ignore_value business is ugly, and
runs against the spirit of the GNU coding standards:

  "Don't make the program ugly to placate lint.
   Please don't insert any casts to void."

  <http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Syntactic-Conventions.html>

How about if we suppress those GCC warnings instead, using
-Wno-unused-result or whatever-it-is?  The cost of this
particular warning seems to be greater than its benefits.



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