Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Why use (void) func() ?
Message-ID: <1990Sep25.163906.4187@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <586@dptechno.UUCP> <3819@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 90 16:39:06 GMT

In article <3819@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>... Are you _sure_ that you know all the causes of error in a
>call to printf() -- such as output being written to a file on a disc
>that has just filled up -- and have ensured that they can't happen?

For printf, it is usually a whole lot simpler -- in cases where it matters,
which it often doesn't -- to just check ferror() near the end.
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