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From: Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@loria.fr>
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Subject: Re: Trivial C11 threads.h wrapper (public domain)
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Am 30.09.2012 23:13, schrieb Markus Elfring:
>> There is already an implementation of C11 threads as a wrapper around
>> POSIX threads that is publicly available.
> 
> I would interpret source code like the following as an update candidate.
> 
> http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/p99-html/p99__threads_8h_source.html :
> ...
> 00633 // 7.26.4 Mutex functions
> 00634
> 00638 p99_inline
> 00639 void mtx_destroy(mtx_t *p00_mtx) {
> 00640   (void)pthread_mutex_destroy(&P99_ENCP(p00_mtx));
> 00641 }
> ...
> 
> 
> How do think about to get rid of the cast to the return type "void" in such use
> cases?

Ok, the discussion that followed this have conviced me that we are
facing a defect of the C11 specification here. I have written up my
ideas about that and added the report to my list on

http://p99.gforge.inria.fr/defects-and-improvements

Jens