Why use (void) func() ?

[Henry Spencer]

In article <3819 at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok at goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:
>... Are you _sure_ that you know all the causes of error in a
>call to printf() -- such as output being written to a file on a disc
>that has just filled up -- and have ensured that they can't happen?

For printf, it is usually a whole lot simpler -- in cases where it matters,
which it often doesn't -- to just check ferror() near the end.
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