Re: Re: [COMMITTERS] pgsql: Silence compiler warning about ignored return value.

Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> I think the usual way is to call the function like:
>> (void) function_with_return_value()

> I tried that first, of course. gcc is too smart about that - it still
> throws the warning in this case.

I think you must have a broken version of gcc. I don't like this
patch either. The (void) is the standard way and should work;
futhermore, if you're getting a warning here, why aren't you getting
a whole lot of others? It's not like we are careful to use (void)
everywhere.

regards, tom lane