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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 05:49:04 +0100
From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: mmarek@suse.cz, hpa@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kbuild, lto: Avoid reported warning with strtoul
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On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 06:35:56AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> From: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
> 
> Apparently someone's C library declares strtoul with warn_unused_result.
> Cast to void to avoid the warning. Error handling is not useful here.

Umm...  Since we don't give a fsck for the value, isn't that simply
	
	char *p = strchr(s, '.');
	if (p) {
		size_t m = strspn(p + 1, "0123456789");
		if (m > 0 && (p[m + 1] == '.' || p[m + 1] == '\0'))
			*p = '\0';
	}