warn_unused_result problem, and a solution
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:28
From: Johannes Schindelin <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:46:28
Hi, when I updated one of my Ubuntu machine's packages, it automatically updated libc6 to a newer version. I was in for a surprise: the output is littered with spurious warnings about lack of handling of return values to all kinds of functions. It took me a while to figure out what had happened, and it took me even longer to find this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/glibc/+bug/305176 Apparently, the good Ubuntu people think it is fine that people who compile stuff themselves are drowned in warnings. To make a long story less long: I have this in my config.mak for now: CFLAGS += -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE Hopefully, this helps others, too. Ciao, Dscho