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.

lint is outdated, compilers have now good enough error checking, so that we don't need lint.

Apparently you must be speaking from ignorance of the capabilities of a modern linter.

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.

you can use :

int main( void )
{
printf( "\t\"whoops\b\b\b\bew\n\"\n");

system("pause"); //stdio.h

return 0;
}

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:

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system("pause");

system("pause");