Re: [patch] x86, ptrace: void dopiness

[Ingo Molnar]

* Metzger, Markus T <markus.t.metzger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Ingo Molnar [mailto:mingo@xxxxxxx] 
> >Sent: Montag, 22. September 2008 14:08
> >To: Metzger, Markus T
> 
> >> The void-cast is intentional in both cases.
> >> 
> >> I thought it a question of style, i.e. that we don't want void casts 
> >> just like we want NULL instead of 0.
> >
> >ok.
> >
> >But you could mark ds_release_bts() as a __must_check 
> >function, in that 
> >case the (void) has functional aspects as well: the kernel build will 
> >complain if a return value is ignored unintentionally.
> 
> Wouldn't every non-void function be __must_check?

no, only those which we mark so explicitly.

	Ingo
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