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diff --git a/lib/ignore-value.h b/lib/ignore-value.h
index 86cfad77b..2e3443509 100644
--- a/lib/ignore-value.h
+++ b/lib/ignore-value.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 /* ignore a function return without a compiler warning
 
-   Copyright (C) 2008-2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2008-2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
    This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
    it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
    along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
-/* Written by Jim Meyering.  */
+/* Written by Jim Meyering, Eric Blake and Pádraig Brady.  */
 
-/* Use these functions to avoid a warning when using a function declared with
+/* Use "ignore_value" to avoid a warning when using a function declared with
    gcc's warn_unused_result attribute, but for which you really do want to
    ignore the result.  Traditionally, people have used a "(void)" cast to
    indicate that a function's return value is deliberately unused.  However,
@@ -32,6 +32,16 @@
    "copy.c:233: warning: ignoring return value of 'fchown',
    declared with attribute warn_unused_result".  */
 
-static inline void ignore_value (int i) { (void) i; }
-static inline void ignore_ptr (void* p) { (void) p; }
-/* FIXME: what about aggregate types? */
+#ifndef _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
+# define _GL_IGNORE_VALUE_H
+
+/* The __attribute__((__warn_unused_result__)) feature
+   is available in gcc versions 3.4 and newer,
+   while the typeof feature has been available since 2.7 at least.  */
+# if __GNUC__ < 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4)
+#  define ignore_value(x) ((void) (x))
+# else
+#  define ignore_value(x) (({ __typeof__ (x) __x = (x); (void) __x; }))
+# endif
+
+#endif