On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 11:40 PM, Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us> wrote: > cast-to-void is commonly suggested as an alternative to an explicit unused > marking, and it is something that I wanted to use originally. > Unfortunately, we have not been able to make that work: this is primarily > because compilers often remove the cast-to-void as part of the parsing > phase, so it's not visible in the parse tree for static checkers.
Also, while casting to void is enough to satisfy clang when calling a MOZ_MUST_USE function, it doesn't satisfy GCC. Using mozilla::Unused, as Michael mentioned elsewhere in the thread, is enough to satisfy both compilers. Nick _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
