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system is in stdlib.h, not stdio.h. It's not a good idea either because now you depend on an outside program that might be malicious. It's a big security no-no because you created a hole that hackers can use to break into your program. 
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Originally Posted by SpS 
Since some compilers (and lint) will warn about discarded return values, an explicit cast to (void) is a way of saying "Yes, I've decided to ignore the return value from this call.
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Originally Posted by TkTkorrovi
lint is outdated, compilers have now good enough error checking, so that we don't need lint.
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Originally Posted by Dave Sinkula
Apparently you must be speaking from ignorance of the capabilities of a modern linter.
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Originally Posted by TkTkorrovi
I likely don't know, what you call the "modern linter", but does it really demand (void) before some function calls? When the function's return value was not used, this means that we didn't need it, no need for such warnings.
My frame of reference is PC-lint. This is not an ad, but some features it lists -- some of which I have used in the past -- are as follows.
Last edited by Dave Sinkula; Aug 29th, 2007 at 10:48 pm.
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Originally Posted by ali_smith_14
you can use :
int main( void )
{
printf( "\t\"whoops\b\b\b\bew\n\"\n");
system("pause"); //stdio.h
return 0;
}
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All good information though, thanks!
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system("pause")
If you search on this site or using Google you can find plenty of lengthy explanations why it's not a good practice.
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Originally Posted by Lost in Code...
I found out what the deal was.... instead of creating a new source file, i created a new project. When creating a new file, my tool writes this in the file as part of the template:C Syntax (Toggle Plain Text)
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