Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!samsung!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!jarthur!aqdata!sullivan
From: sullivan@aqdata.uucp (Michael T. Sullivan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Discarded Function Values (To Cast or Not to Cast)
Message-ID: <1989Nov17.154621.2698@aqdata.uucp>
Date: 17 Nov 89 15:46:21 GMT
References: <316@voa3.UUCP>
Organization: aQdata, Inc.  Western Region -- San Dimas, CA
Lines: 15

From article <316@voa3.UUCP>, by ck@voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern):
> ...  Should I cast the function
> call to void, or am I just indulging in the trivial luxury of
> silencing lint?

Although you are merely silencing lint, you are also doing yourself
a service.  If you start letting warnings like "return value ignored"
pop up then you will someday miss an real warning/error message that
is buried amongst the "fake" warning/error messages.  Silence as many
lint warnings as you can (will somebody PLEASE do something about the
malloc bugaboo) and the real ones will stand out easily.
-- 
Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
aQdata, Inc.
San Dimas, CA