The arguments (argc, argv) _are used, in the for loop from ARGBEGIN.
On Tue, Nov 5, 2013 at 7:57 PM, Alexander Huemer <alexander.huemer_AT_xx.vu> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 07:23:30PM +0100, Krol, Willem van de wrote:
>> Indeed, casting to void doesn't have any effect. The variable doesn't
>> become unusable or something like that (no compiler warning or error).
>
> Casting to void has an effect. In case an argument to a function is not
> used anywhere in that function the compiler would give a warning,
> because that could be unintended.
> Having a macro for (void) is nice, because, as already said, it's
> shorter to type, and additionally so you have one place that you can
> change to make all those warnings visible for a whole project. I.e. you
> substitute that macro with an empty string.
>
> Kind regards,
> -Alex
>
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