linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Kbuild, lto: Avoid reported warning with strtoul

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Message-ID: <20140418133812.GA11200@tassilo.jf.intel.com>
Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 2014 06:38:12 -0700
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>, mmarek@...e.cz, hpa@...or.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild, lto: Avoid reported warning with strtoul

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 05:49:04AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: 
> On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 06:35:56AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>
> > 
> > Apparently someone's C library declares strtoul with warn_unused_result.
> > Cast to void to avoid the warning. Error handling is not useful here.
> 
> Umm...  Since we don't give a fsck for the value, isn't that simply

Yes your code is equivalent to mine.

-Andi
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