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From: brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Why use (void) func() ?
Message-ID: <2275:Sep2420:18:0490@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Date: 24 Sep 90 20:18:04 GMT
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I put in the (void) to remind myself later that I simply do not care
about the return value of foo. When I leave something like printf()
without a (void), I'm reminding myself that I may or may not want to
check the return value. This gain in readability (using a convention
that lint also supports) justifies taking advantage of the feature.

---Dan