PATCH, libiberty: eliminate build warning
Ian Lance Taylor
iant@google.com
Tue Nov 24 22:38:00 GMT 2009
John Reiser <jreiser@bitwagon.com> writes:
>> * pex-unix.c (pex_child_error): Improve warning avoidance by
>> checking the results of write(3) and exiting with -2 if any write
>> returns a non-zero value.
>
>> +#define writeerr(s) retval |= write (STDERR_FILE_NO, s, strlen (s))
>
>> + _exit (retval == 0 ? -1 : -2);
>
> Calling _exit(-1) will be exceedingly rare.
It's all a pointless exercise to avoid a useless gcc warning triggered
by over-eager Debian header files. I think this bikeshed has been
painted enough.
Ian
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