compiling gnucash2 on FC5-devel (gcc 4.1.0)

[Derek Atkins]

John Ellson <ellson at research.att.com> writes:

> I would suspect so too, but I recently learned in another project that 
> casting the
> result of functions to (void) is not portable.  In particular Sun's and 
> SGI's compilers
> don't like that technique.   Perhaps that doesn't matter to gnucash if 
> it is gcc only?

Exactly.

> Assigning to a variable of the right type is probably better (more 
> portable), but I'm a bit
> surprised that you are not seeing: "warning: value computed is not used" 
> instead?
> Thats perhaps becasue I don't properly understand the warning in the 
> other project.

Could be.

> John

-derek

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