Need for prefixing a function with (void)

Question

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

e.g.

(void)         


        

Answer 1

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

No difference. It is a quite common convention e.g. in software testing to highlight the fact that in context the function return, if any, is safe to be discarded.