Re: [Bug-tar] ignore_value vs (void) [was: bug#15970: bug#15970: Crash in gettext() after fork() on Mac OS X]

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/27/2013 11:04 AM, Charles Swiger wrote:
> folks who want to pull in gnulib for ignore_value()

We're talking about six lines of code here; it's so small that
it's not really copyrightable and you don't need to use gnulib at all --
just plop the lines into your application and use ignore_value all
you want.  It's portable in practice.

One alternative is to tell builders to ignore those annoying warnings
from glibc, but our experience is that it's better to silence them;
this saves everybody time.

> the relative
> portability of code to non-GNU platforms which don't come with gnulib

That's not how gnulib works.  Platforms don't "come with gnulib";
applications that use gnulib bring the gnulib code along with them.