Re: [Valgrind-developers] [valgrind] Helgrind: fix unused result of write warnings

[Florian K. <fl...@ei...>]

On 21.11.24 08:34, Paul Floyd wrote:
> https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=valgrind.git;h=3a80792278be69b9270485b07a79a62a5978c4bf
> 
> commit 3a80792278be69b9270485b07a79a62a5978c4bf
> Author: Paul Floyd <pj...@wa...>
> Date:   Thu Nov 21 08:24:35 2024 +0100
> 
>      Helgrind: fix unused result of write warnings
>      
>      Thanks to GCC deciding that we can't ignore wur annotated
>      functions by casting to void we need to do otherwise. It was
>      either pragmas or adding an annotated unused local. Pragmas
>      seem to be the least awful.

Yeah, this is annoying. That warning is brought to you by -Ox with x > 0
In my experience (many years doing static analysis and looking at other prople's 
code) I can say that this warning is a weak symptom for detecting anything 
serious. How about disabling this globally?

   Florian