From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] kenc: casting expression to void not ignored
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:28:31 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7359f0490806290828m63a1a553mfcc2bb49e936b17@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A14B2B45-67BD-4E40-B056-68EF3CAA687F@mac.com>
> Shouldn't the cast to void mean that I don't intend to use the result of the
> operation? Thanks.
That's not standard C, just a bad convention established by lint(1)
and carried too far for a while before fading away again.
-rob
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-29 15:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-29 13:53 Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-29 13:57 ` Pietro Gagliardi
2008-06-29 14:18 ` erik quanstrom
2008-06-29 15:28 ` Rob Pike [this message]
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