lint and (void)printf

[rs at mirror.UUCP]

(The original article came in as an "Orphaned Response," and since I
 run notes...)

If you don't want to clutter up your code with casting *printf results
to void, then just change the lint library specification so that these
functions don't return a value.  If you're paranoid, you can put it in
a different library so that people say, e.g., -lcareless in their
command line.  In particular, I strongly recommend that you do this
for sprintf() in the standard library to catch anyone who tries to use
the "return value" -- in BSD and USG they're very, very different!

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