Re: failure to build due to ignoring fwrite() result

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* Paul Eggert wrote on Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 09:17:34PM CEST:
> In controversial areas like this, we should look to the GNU coding standards
> for advice, and they state that one shouldn't cast to void, or use
> similar measures merely to satisfy a lint checker.  So I suggest that we
> not use ignore-value; instead, we should avoid the GCC options that
> generate these warnings.
> 
> For gnulib, I suggest that we deprecate the ignore-value module.

I wish glibc developers had looked to GCS for this area too, when adding
all those warn_unused_result annotations to some library versions,
making this an annoyance with GCC, not some lint.

Cheers,
Ralf