[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk 1/4] coroutine: don't force coroutine_init checking

Marc-André Lureau marcandre.lureau at gmail.com
Tue Nov 19 08:12:39 PST 2013


On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 5:09 PM, Christophe Fergeau <cfergeau at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:05:13AM -0500, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
>> > > Just like any other C function
>> >
>> > NACK, I just added this annotation as not checking its return value will
>> > cause very hard to track down failures (no usable backtraces), so better to
>> > force it to be checked, especially as this is only used internally.
>>
>> This is really different from any other C API.
>
> GList, GSList make extensive use of it, and it's also used in a several other
> places in glib.

Because they return object that contains allocated data, or are
critical to there mode of working.

Any other function that returns an error code doesn't have
G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT.

I'll modify the patch to abort, and return void.

-- 
Marc-André Lureau


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