Casting return to (void) was used to tell lint that you intended
 to ignore the return value, so it didn't warn you about it.

 Casting the third argument to (char *) was used as the most generic
 pointer type in the days before compilers supported C89 (void *)
 (except for a couple places it's used for byte-sized pointer math).
Signed-off-by: Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com>
Tested-by: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>
 Backport to nx-libs: Mike Gabriel <mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de>