Re: Is "void f(int i) { return (void)i; }" legal?

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From: Leif Andrew Rump
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 1990 14:14

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rfg@paris.ics.uci.edu (Ronald Guilmette) writes:
>For those who missed the subject line, I'd like to know if this is legal:
>	void f (int i) { return (void) i; }

As Doug Gwyn (i think it was) correctly states is it illegal _but_
it is a bit puzzling at first to see that void * is legal but I sure
rather want that than char * as it was in malloc and other in the past

Leif Andrew Rump, AmbraSoft A/S, Stroedamvej 50, DK-2100 Copenhagen OE, Denmark
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