warning: value computed is not used

[Byron Stanoszek]

While using the latest snapshot (20000928), I came across this error in much of
my code. It results from a #define ({ result; }) macro where the result is
[optionally], but not always, used. Line 19, below.

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warning.c:

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>

/* like strncpy but doesn't pad with zeroes. n=buffer size instead of siz-1 */
#define strmaxcpy(d, s, n) ({ char *_d=d; int _n=n; \
                              if(_n > 0 && !memccpy(_d, s, 0, _n)) \
                                _d[_n-1]='\0'; _d; })


int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
  char buf[256], buf2[256];
  char *dest;

  /* produces no warning */
  dest = strmaxcpy(buf, argv[0], 256);

  /* produces warning */
  strmaxcpy(buf2, argv[0], 256);  /* line 19 */

  exit(0);
}

root:~> gcc -Wall -O3 warning.c -c
warning.c: In function `main':
warning.c:19: warning: value computed is not used
warning.c:22: warning: control reaches end of non-void function

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Also, the warning on line 22 hasn't come up before. Has exit() been dropped
from the list of built-in functions?

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