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From: steve@groucho.ucar.edu (Steve Emmerson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: why "(void)printf(fmt);" besides lint(1)?
Keywords: casting void lint
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Date: 25 May 90 22:13:19 GMT
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I'd like to poll this group's readership on the following question:

Aside from getting lint(1) to shut up, why else would one write

	(void)printf(fmt);

rather than the simpler

	printf(fmt);

?

NB: This question is intended to be neutral.

Steve Emmerson        steve@unidata.ucar.edu        ...!ncar!unidata!steve