Status of 2.4 release
bill davidsen
davidsen at tmr.com
Mon Jan 13 20:21:37 UTC 2003
In article <yld6n3vyz1.fsf at windlord.stanford.edu>,
Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> wrote:
| >> * Remove all the (void) casts on functions everywhere.
|
| > Were those inserted just to make lint shut up, or because we actually
| > don't care about the result? (What I'm really asking is, does the
| > person doing this need to keep an eye out for system calls with return
| > values not being checked?)
|
| I don't believe one needs to check that; most of them date from the
| original release of INN and were just the original coding style.
Whatever, but let's not remove those needed to make lint or compilers
shut up. The more warnings caused by non-errors the more likely a real
problem will vanish in the noise.
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bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.
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