From: utzoo!watmath!rday Newsgroups: net.lang.c Title: use of (void) type in C Article-I.D.: watmath.4152 Posted: Mon Jan 3 11:03:24 1983 Received: Tue Jan 4 00:05:42 1983 A common use of the void type is to use it as a cast for functions which normally return values, but you wish to ignore: strcpy(str1,str2) will cause lint to respond that strcpy always returns which is ignored, but (void) strcpy(str1,str2) keeps lint happy. In either case, normal cc compiling will work correctly.