Discarded Function Values (To Cast or Not to Cast)

[Michael T. Sullivan]

>From article <316 at voa3.UUCP>, by ck at voa3.UUCP (Chris Kern):
> ...  Should I cast the function
> call to void, or am I just indulging in the trivial luxury of
> silencing lint?

Although you are merely silencing lint, you are also doing yourself
a service.  If you start letting warnings like "return value ignored"
pop up then you will someday miss an real warning/error message that
is buried amongst the "fake" warning/error messages.  Silence as many
lint warnings as you can (will somebody PLEASE do something about the
malloc bugaboo) and the real ones will stand out easily.
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Michael Sullivan          uunet!jarthur.uucp!aqdata!sullivan
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