On Thu, Sep 20, 2001 at 12:54:23PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> Indeed in a slightly related project, the AT&T 5ESS switch, a study in
> 1993 of the several million lines of code therein listed the failure to
> "use function return values or cast to 'void'" as one of the top 11
> major interface faults causing real bugs in the code.  That's from "A
> Software Fault Prevention Approach in Coding and Root Cause Analysis" by
> Weider D. Yu, published in Bell Labs Technical Journal, April-June 1998.

This paper is available at
http://www.lucent.com/minds/techjournal/apr-jun1998/current.html

-andy