casts to (void)

[Kim Christian Madsen]

In article <116 at rtp47.UUCP> meissner at rtp47.UUCP (Michael Meissner) writes:
>
>Whenever I use things like printf with lint, I define things like:
>
>	#define	Printf	(void) printf
>	#define	Fputs	(void) fputs
>
>		/* ... */
>
>	Printf("Hello World!\n");
>
>Which translates to:
>
>	(void) printf("Hello World!\n");
>
>Thus lint is kept happy, and my program is not cluttered up with casts to void.

That's a mediocre solution, it shouldn't be necessary lint should know the
set of standard functions which results needn't be used. It's not accept-
able to either put (void) in front of printf(), scanf(), ...etc. or make
defines like "#define Printf (void) printf".

						Regards
						Kim Chr. Madsen
					a.k.a.	kimcm at diku.uucp