Re: [PATCH] err.h: add __must_check to error pointer handlers

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:45:40PM +0200, Jani Nikula wrote:
> Add __must_check to error pointer handlers to have the compiler warn
> about mistakes like:
> 
> 	if (err)
> 		ERR_PTR(err);

> -static inline void *ERR_PTR(long error)
> +static inline void * __must_check ERR_PTR(long error)

We had bugs like that?

Pretty much every non-void function should be marked then.
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