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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Discarded Function Values (To Cast or Not to Cast)
Message-ID: <11644@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 19 Nov 89 00:57:42 GMT
Article-I.D.: smoke.11644
References: <316@voa3.UUCP> <1989Nov17.154621.2698@aqdata.uucp> <1989Nov18.062322.12728@twwells.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <1989Nov18.062322.12728@twwells.com> bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) writes:
>I don't worry about lint warnings about functions whose return
>value is never used. It is generally a very short list, ...

If it isn't a problem for you, more power to you.
I find that I am less likely to overlook genuine problems
reported by "lint" if NO lint output is expected than if
SOME lint output is expected.  This is difficult to enforce
when malloc() is involved, although there are ways.