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Fredrik Solenberg500e75b2018-05-23 11:49:01 +02001/*
2 * Copyright (c) 2018 The WebRTC project authors. All Rights Reserved.
3 *
4 * Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license
5 * that can be found in the LICENSE file in the root of the source
6 * tree. An additional intellectual property rights grant can be found
7 * in the file PATENTS. All contributing project authors may
8 * be found in the AUTHORS file in the root of the source tree.
9 */
10
11#ifndef RTC_BASE_SYSTEM_UNUSED_H_
12#define RTC_BASE_SYSTEM_UNUSED_H_
13
14// Annotate a function indicating the caller must examine the return value.
15// Use like:
16// int foo() RTC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
17// To explicitly ignore a result, cast to void.
18// TODO(kwiberg): Remove when we can use [[nodiscard]] from C++17.
19#if defined(__clang__)
20#define RTC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__))
21#elif defined(__GNUC__)
22// gcc has a __warn_unused_result__ attribute, but you can't quiet it by
23// casting to void, so we don't use it.
24#define RTC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
25#else
26#define RTC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
27#endif
28
29// Prevent the compiler from warning about an unused variable. For example:
30// int result = DoSomething();
31// assert(result == 17);
32// RTC_UNUSED(result);
33// Note: In most cases it is better to remove the unused variable rather than
34// suppressing the compiler warning.
35#ifndef RTC_UNUSED
36#define RTC_UNUSED(x) static_cast<void>(x)
37#endif // RTC_UNUSED
38
39#endif // RTC_BASE_SYSTEM_UNUSED_H_