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Re: swscanf() causing Memory Fault




On Sun, 16 Nov 2008, James K. Lowden wrote:
+       (void)memset(WCIO_GET(&f), 0, sizeof(struct wchar_io_data));

Why cast a discarded return code to void?  That seems overly fussy to me.

We've been doing this since ~forever: It's to tell lint(1) that we're aware of the fact that menset() returns something, and that we ignore it on purpose.


 - Hubert


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