Request for suppressing "warn_unused_result" warnings

[Andreas Schwab]

Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@gmail.com> writes:

> On 29/05/2010 01:14, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@ writes:
>
>>>   there is *no* circumstances
>>> under which ignoring the return from *any* function is *always* a bug.
>
>> For practical purposes, it is always a bug to ignore the return value
>> of realloc (I disregard the unusual case of passing 0 as the second
>> argument in order to free the memory block).
>
>   Also the case of calling it for a size that is known a priori to be less
> than the original size of the block!

Depending on the implementation it may be necessary to relocate the
block even in this case.

Andreas.

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