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> Very early C code looked like this:
>
> (void)printf("yay\n");
>
> because early compilers warned about unused return values. The idea of
> casting things to void, to indicate that you don't intend to use them, goes
> back a very long way, and MSVC supports it (hey, if it didn't, I'd have had
> a hell of a lot of complaints about DUMB by now). See the C FAQ, question
> 17.5, at:
>
> http://www.faqs.org/faqs/C-faq/faq/
Doesn't say anything about
(void) variable;
only about
(void) function-call;
Nevertheless applied.
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Eric Botcazou