Re: How do I write directly to a memory address?

[Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com>]

On 2/9/2011 3:19 PM, Vinzent Hoefler wrote:
> So it probably was as readable as C-code could ever be. Of course, things like
> putting "(void)" before each function where the return value is not evaluated
> might not really count as "readable", but it's a good hint for the maintenance
> programmer that it was ignored on purpose.

Ugh. I would never allow such constructs to pass inspection.
It isn't idiomatic C, and it's ugly as sin.

Why might you have such ignored returns? For example, strcat
and strcpy return their first argument so you can cascade,

     strcat(strcat(strcpy(buf, "a"), "b"), "c");

but typically you're just doing

     strcpy(buf, "hello");

If you write

     (void)strcpy(buf, "hello");

that doesn't tell me you're careful, I'll just hate you.