Re: RFC: warnings on ignoring return value on some list operations

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Owen Taylor wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:58 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
>
> > i think that is a really good idea. however i'm more of the opinion that all
> > list functions should have the warn_unused_result tag. code and conditions
> > are easily changed, moved around or pasted so that missing the return value
> > assignment for lists will become a problem. i.e. even if you know you're
> > appending to a non-empty list, you should still write
> > list = g_list_append (list, data);
> >
> > so i'd apprchiate if you extended the patch to cover all list functions
> > that return possibly modified lists ;)
>
> What happened to compatibility?

could you please outline how you see compatibility affected by this?

> 						Owen

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