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Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 08:28:31 -0700
From: "Rob Pike" <robpike@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>
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Subject: Re: [9fans] kenc: casting expression to void not ignored
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> 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