From: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, Simon.Derr@bull.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cpuset release ABBA deadlock fix
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 02:13:55 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050809021355.5a0710c9.pj@sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0508090902350.1805@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Jan wrote:
> Because K&R (also the 2nd ed) does it.
I don't recall (void) being in early C. Perhaps it was added as
part of the ANSI Standardization effort. I doubt that the first
edition K&R [1978] has it. But my copy is not at hand to verify
this.
I continue to use it in userspace code to document that I'm ignoring
a return value. This habit likely began when I had to suppress lint
warnings about unused function returns at some point in my career.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-09 9:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-08 22:37 Paul Jackson
2005-08-09 6:25 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-09 7:06 ` Jan Engelhardt
2005-08-09 9:13 ` Paul Jackson [this message]
2005-08-09 8:25 ` Paul Jackson
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