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Re: Remove unused variable from powerpc sem_post.c

From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
To: David Miller <davem at davemloft dot net>
Cc: joseph at codesourcery dot com, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, ryan dot arnold at gmail dot com
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:23:20 -0600
Subject: Re: Remove unused variable from powerpc sem_post.c
References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.1212042124030.17916@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <20121204.162735.336401689347788766.davem@davemloft.net>

On 2012-12-04 15:27, David Miller wrote:
> I thought we had atomics that didn't return a value and therefore could
> be used in situations like this, but I guess not.

We have optabs that don't return a value, and we'll use them 
if we see that the return value isn't used.  I wouldn't think
a cast to void would be strictly required...

r~

References:
- Remove unused variable from powerpc sem_post.c
  - From: Joseph S. Myers
- Re: Remove unused variable from powerpc sem_post.c
  - From: David Miller

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