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From:
Jarkko Hietaniemi
Date:
April 27, 2014 20:12
Subject:
Re: FYI: sv.c warnings from blead on OS X 10.9
Message ID:
535D648A.6090607@iki.fi
On Sunday-201404-27, 15:57, Craig A. Berry wrote:
> It's complaining about the return value, which we're doing our best to
> throw away and thereby emulate a void gconvert:

I am confused: what's wrong with (void)?

> http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/blobdiff/04783dc7025287c5d75ab531602c7ec786a1e787..cca0492ec62cab786a01ea96c47e549fe0aa8c61:/sv.c

"void Gconvert: on Linux at least, gcvt (which Gconvert gets deffed 
to),has a mandatory return value" - how "mandatory" are we talking about?

> I don't think it's doing any real harm, but warnings that need to be
> ignored tend to accumulate and then it's too easy to ignore all
> warnings.

Indeed.


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