From 9f25dcea55713aa37451c52b809e16ae1509bfe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2026 13:51:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] checksrc: detect and warn for (void)!

It's plain weird. Don't do it.

Closes #22023
---
 scripts/checksrc.pl | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checksrc.pl b/scripts/checksrc.pl
index b09ded9bfe..2f2c218fea 100755
--- a/scripts/checksrc.pl
+++ b/scripts/checksrc.pl
@@ -202,6 +202,7 @@ my %warnings = (
     'TYPEDEFSTRUCT'         => 'typedefed struct',
     'UNUSEDIGNORE'          => 'a warning ignore was not used',
     'USESAFEFREE'           => 'replace curlx_free() + NULL assignment with curlx_safefree()',
+    'VOIDEXCL'              => '(void)! is not something we like',
     );
 
 sub readskiplist {
@@ -1165,6 +1166,12 @@ sub scanfile {
                       "space after exclamation mark");
         }
 
+        if($nostr =~ /(.*)\(void\)\!/) {
+            checkwarn("VOIDEXCL",
+                      $line, length($1)+1, $file, $ol,
+                      "exclamation after (void) is weird");
+        }
+
         if($nostr =~ /(.*)\b(EACCES|EADDRINUSE|EADDRNOTAVAIL|EAFNOSUPPORT|EBADF|ECONNREFUSED|ECONNRESET|EINPROGRESS|EINTR|EINVAL|EISCONN|EMSGSIZE|ENOMEM|ETIMEDOUT|EWOULDBLOCK)\b/) {
             checkwarn("ERRNOVAR",
                       $line, length($1), $file, $ol,