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In article <4hg4hv$iqb@hubcap.clemson.edu>, ckirsch@eng.clemson.edu says...
>
>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;
>  
these two line appear to do nothing. It looks like it is casting x & y to void 
data type, but not doing anything with it.
>  (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
>
>---
>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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