What does this do?

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From: Chuck Kirschman
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 1996 01:14

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I'm working in *somebody else's code*, which I'm sure everyone pretty
much dreads.  I've run across a construct which I don't understand the
purpose of:

void foo(int bar, float *baz)
{
  int x,y;
  
  (void) x;
  (void) y;
  
  [rest of function]
}

The compiler (Watcom 10.5) doesn't like it, but lets it pass.  What exactly
is this doing?  And, more importantly, what is the author trying to acheive?

thanks
chuck

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Chuck Kirschman                     ckirsch@eng.clemson.edu
http://www.eng.clemson.edu/~ckirsch/
"I don't NEED to compromise my principles, because they don't have the
 slightest bearing on what happens to me anyway." - Calvin

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From: ckirsch@eng.clemson.edu (Chuck Kirschman)
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Subject: What does this do?
Date: 5 Mar 1996 01:14:39 GMT
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