[PATCH] debug/tst-longjmp_chk2: Make signal handler more conservative [BZ #20248]

Paul Eggert eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Wed Jun 15 22:36:00 GMT 2016


On 06/15/2016 03:10 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> that longstanding idiom implies people seeing a warning and
> blindly applying it, without thinking about whether there is a real bug

Sure, but now with Gnulib, ignore_value (E) is the new idiom for (void) 
(E). A careless developer blindly applying ignore_value now is like a 
careless developer blindly applying a void cast in the good old 
days.Nothing has changed, really.

If GCC changes again in this area, I hope Gnulib's ignore_value 
continues to work. It would be a pain to have yet another musical-chairs 
period during which there is needless confusion.



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