Need for prefixing a function with (void)...

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Published on 2010-06-14T08:44:43Z Indexed on 2010/06/14 8:52 UTC
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Hi All,

I recently came across a rather unusual coding convention wherein the call for a function returning "void" is prefixed with (void).

e.g.

(void) MyFunction();

Is it any different from the function call like:

MyFunction();

Has it got any advantage or is it yet another needless but there coding convention of some sort?

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