On 04/02/2009 00:24, Mark Michelson wrote: > Robert Boardman wrote: > >> Here is just one example of a warning when compiling asterisk on Ubuntu 8.10 >> >> manager.c:1760: warning: ignoring return value of âreadâ, declared with >> attribute warn_unused_result >> >> is this anything to worry about? >> >> can i safely ignore it? >> >> Thanks >> Robb >> >> > > I may be wrong about this part, but that class of warning is something that > started appearing with a recent version of gcc (4.3 I think). Kevin Fleming > took > the time to clear up these warnings shortly after the release of this version > of > gcc, so if you are using a current checkout of Asterisk, you shouldn't see > those > warnings. In fact, looking at manager.c in my 1.4 and 1.6.0 checkouts, all > calls > to read(2) have their return value checked. > > To answer your question more directly, it's something that has a low potential > to create problems, but given how long Asterisk had gone without checking > those > return values and how recently that was fixed, it's probably something you can > ignore. Of course updating to a more recent checkout of Asterisk will clear > such > warnings up. > > Mark Michelson > > _______________________________________________ > -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- > > asterisk-users mailing list > To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users > thanks for your reply,
I think I may need to use the 1.4..21.2 version as I'm still using zaptel for the pri card Robb _______________________________________________ -- Bandwidth and Colocation Provided by http://www.api-digital.com -- asterisk-users mailing list To UNSUBSCRIBE or update options visit: http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-users
