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Re:Hey, C Is a Functional Language Too by walrus on Friday November 02, 2012 @08:45AM (#4732338)
It stops the compiler from complaining about unused variables:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8052091/void-cast-of-argc...

Re:Hey, C Is a Functional Language Too by tmhedberg on Friday November 02, 2012 @12:50PM (#4733532)
Why would you do this instead of declaring it as `int main(void)`?