Coverity Unchecked Return Value Issues

[Gedare Bloom]

On Mon, Feb 8, 2021 at 11:24 AM Joel Sherrill <joel at rtems.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> There are more than a couple of these. in our set of CIDs. I am wondering
> if these can be addressed with a macro like this:
>
> #define _IGNORED_RETURN_STATUS(_status, _ok) \
>   do { \
>     _Assert((_status) == (_ok)); \
>

Can you also pass the comparison? I guess it would usually be ==, but it
could be != sometimes? I think that is the main challenge here.


>    (void) (_status);
>   } while (0);
>
> Or _Assert_Ignored_return?
>
> The ones I have looked at, the return value should always be successful
> but there isn't any reason we can't be defensive about them.
>
> Thoughts.
>
> --joel
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