5 more simple patches for usr.bin/make

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Thu Nov 11 14:36:31 PST 2004


:On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Douwe Kiela wrote:
:
:> These patches look fine, except that the (void) casts should be removed...
:
:I've seen a number of patches lately which remove void casts.  Could you
:explain (very briefly) where this momentum is coming from?  Is it gcc,
:for example, or elsewhere?
:
:Thanks!

    They are mostly eyesores that do not improve the readability of the
    code or serve any compile-time purpose.

    It's similar to the silly 'blank line after open-brace of procedure if
    no local variables declared' eyesore.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at xxxxxxxxxxxxx>





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