Re: __attribute__((warn_unused_result)) for NetBSD?

[David Holland <dholland-tech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 04:03:59AM -0400, der Mouse wrote:
 > This is why I stopped using lint; it produces content-free warnings
 > like "pointer casts may be troublesome", to the point where I found the
 > time lost sorting through its output looking for anything worth reading
 > was more than the time lost to the bugs I had to find the hard way.
 > (gcc helps this substantially because it has warning options that
 > provide many of the more valuable checks lint did, without the drivel.
 > There was a time when I had a lint postprocessor which tried to clean
 > up the useless noise; even with that I found it of negative value.)

This is largely because our lint is old and stupid.

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David A. Holland
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