From: Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2 1/2] ss: Fix compiler errors of unused return-values
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2013 17:14:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130722151414.GC13263@cpaasch-mac> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130722075410.78532ad4@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
On 22/07/13 - 07:54:10, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 21:58:17 +0200
> Christoph Paasch <christoph.paasch@uclouvain.be> wrote:
>
> > Many errors when compiling with gcc 4.7.3 about unused return-values
> > upon the calls to fgets and fscanf:
> >
> > ss.c: In function ‘user_ent_hash_build’:
> > ss.c:305:12: error: ignoring return value of ‘fscanf’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘get_slabstat’:
> > ss.c:387:7: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘init_service_resolver’:
> > ss.c:511:8: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘run_ssfilter’:
> > ss.c:728:11: error: ignoring return value of ‘fscanf’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘is_ephemeral’:
> > ss.c:550:10: error: ignoring return value of ‘fscanf’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘netlink_show’:
> > ss.c:2836:7: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘packet_show’:
> > ss.c:2630:7: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > ss.c: In function ‘unix_show’:
> > ss.c:2364:7: error: ignoring return value of ‘fgets’, declared with attribute warn_unused_result [-Werror=unused-result]
> > cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
> > make[1]: *** [ss.o] Error 1
> > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/christoph/workspace/linux/iproute2/misc'
> > make: *** [all] Error 2
> >
> > For the calls to fscanf we can't really do anything about it, and just
> > do an empty if-statement to make the compiler happy.
> >
> >
>
> I would prefer an error message rather than silently exiting.
Ok, I will resubmit.
Cheers,
Christoph
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-07-22 15:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-07-20 19:58 [PATCH iproute2 0/2] Fix compiler-errors with gcc 4.7.3 Christoph Paasch
2013-07-20 19:58 ` [PATCH iproute2 1/2] ss: Fix compiler errors of unused return-values Christoph Paasch
2013-07-22 14:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-07-22 15:06 ` Denis Kirjanov
2013-07-22 15:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2013-07-22 15:14 ` Christoph Paasch [this message]
2013-07-22 15:38 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-07-22 17:26 ` Ben Hutchings
2013-07-20 19:58 ` [PATCH iproute2 2/2] lnstat: " Christoph Paasch
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