Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Add check for sscanf without return use | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 07 Oct 2013 17:03:14 -0700 |
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On Mon, 2013-10-07 at 16:56 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Mon, 07 Oct 2013 16:45:23 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote: > > > Naked use sscanf can be troublesome. > > It would be helpful to expand on "troublesome"?
Dunno, you either know or the couple of paragraphs it takes to explain with examples won't really be too helpful in a commit log.
> > Add a warning when the sscanf return value is not used. > Maybe it should be __must_check?
Maybe.
That might be easier but there'll be a couple hundred new build warnings.
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