-/* ignore a function return without a compiler warning
+/* ignore a function return without a compiler warning. -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
- Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+ Copyright (C) 2008-2016 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
#ifndef _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
#define _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
-/* The __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__)) feature
- is available in gcc versions 3.4 and newer,
- while the typeof feature has been available since 2.7 at least. */
+/* Normally casting an expression to void discards its value, but GCC
+ versions 3.4 and newer have __attribute__ ((__warn_unused_result__))
+ which may cause unwanted diagnostics in that case. Use __typeof__
+ and __extension__ to work around the problem, if the workaround is
+ known to be needed. */
#if 3 < __GNUC__ + (4 <= __GNUC_MINOR__)
# define ignore_value(x) \
(__extension__ ({ __typeof__ (x) __x = (x); (void) __x; }))