Fix discarded nodiscard results across the test suite for GCC's warn_unused_result

A plain (void) cast on a call expression suppresses the C++17 [[nodiscard]]
warning but not GCC's warning for functions annotated via the GNU
__attribute__((warn_unused_result)) form -- which is what
JSON_HEDLEY_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT expands to on GCC. Several existing tests
that call a newly-annotated function (dump(), empty()) purely to check
that it throws/does not throw, discarding the result via (void), newly
warned (and failed -Werror builds) once the annotation was broadened.
Route those discards through a small ignore_return_value() helper
instead, which actually consumes the value and suppresses the warning
on both attribute forms.

Signed-off-by: Niels Lohmann <mail@nlohmann.me>
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Niels Lohmann
2026-09-06 12:18:38 +02:00
parent 354d5fa723
commit 7cb4d3284e
11 changed files with 63 additions and 22 deletions
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@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ using nlohmann::json;
#include <iostream>
#include <iomanip>
#include "make_test_data_available.hpp"
#include "test_utils.hpp"
// this test suite uses static variables with non-trivial destructors
DOCTEST_CLANG_SUPPRESS_WARNING_PUSH
@@ -97,7 +98,8 @@ void check_utf8dump(bool success_expected, int byte1, int byte2 = -1, int byte3
else
{
// strict mode must throw if success is not expected
CHECK_THROWS_AS(j.dump(), json::type_error&);
// dump() is nodiscard; the exception is thrown by dump() itself before it would return
CHECK_THROWS_AS(utils::ignore_return_value(j.dump()), json::type_error&);
// ignore and replace must create different dumps
CHECK(s_ignored != s_replaced);