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From: mjs@eagle.UUCP (M.J.Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: casts to (void)
Message-ID: <1310@eagle.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-Aug-85 08:54:43 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug  5 08:54:43 1985
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> In article <116@rtp47.UUCP> meissner@rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
> >
> >Whenever I use things like printf with lint, I define things like:
> >
> >	#define	Printf	(void) printf
> >	#define	Fputs	(void) fputs
> >
> >		/* ... */
> >
> >	Printf("Hello World!\n");
> >
> >Which translates to:
> >
> >	(void) printf("Hello World!\n");
> >
> >Thus lint is kept happy, and my program is not cluttered up with casts to void.
> 
> That's a mediocre solution, it shouldn't be necessary lint should know the
> set of standard functions which results needn't be used. It's not accept-
> able to either put (void) in front of printf(), scanf(), ...etc. or make
> defines like "#define Printf (void) printf".
> 
> 						Regards
> 						Kim Chr. Madsen
> 					a.k.a.	kimcm@diku.uucp

And programs that do this don't recover from write errors, like when a
filesystem runs out of space.  That's what lint *correctly* complains about.
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