Lieven Govaerts <lgo_at_apache.org> writes:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 12:55 AM, philip_at_apache.org <philip_at_apache.org> wrote:
>> Author: philip
>> Date: Wed Apr 3 22:55:37 2013
>> New Revision: 1464228
>>
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/r1464228
>> Log:
>> Remove (void) casts of ignored return values from ra_serf.
>>
>> * subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c
>> (svn_ra_serf__conn_closed, svn_ra_serf__process_pending,
>> svn_ra_serf__handle_xml_parser, svn_ra_serf__credentials_callback,
>> svn_ra_serf__request_create, expat_start, expat_end,
>> expat_cdata, expat_response_handler): Remove cast.
>
> What's the benefit of removing these casts? Is the purpose to consider
> these as warnings in order to solve them later?
We were not consistently casting to (void) when ignoring return values.
Branko objected when I added such a cast recently so I decided to remove
them all.
>> Modified: subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c
>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c?rev=1464228&r1=1464227&r2=1464228&view=diff
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c (original)
>> +++ subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_ra_serf/util.c Wed Apr 3 22:55:37 2013
>> @@ -497,7 +497,7 @@ svn_ra_serf__conn_closed(serf_connection
>>
>> err = svn_error_trace(connection_closed(ra_conn, why, pool));
>>
>> - (void) save_error(ra_conn->session, err);
>> + save_error(ra_conn->session, err);
>> }
>>
>>
>> @@ -1490,7 +1490,7 @@ svn_ra_serf__process_pending(svn_ra_serf
>>
>> /* Tell the parser that no more content will be parsed. Ignore the
>> return status. We just don't care. */
>> - (void) XML_Parse(parser->xmlp, NULL, 0, 1);
>> + XML_Parse(parser->xmlp, NULL, 0, 1);
>
> This confuses me a bit. You leave the comment so I guess you agree
> with the decision to ignore the return value here, yet you remove the
> (void) cast which makes the same thing clear from the code.
If the (void) cast helps then we should be using it everywhere we ignore
a return value.
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Received on 2013-04-04 13:29:15 CEST