what does the following call mean in C? [duplicate]

Question

I am exploring an sdk and I came across the following set of statements.

uint32_t init_time = 0;
init_time = get_current_time_in_ms();
(void)init_time; // What does this statement do?

My first thought was that this is a NULL check of some sorts but I tried zero and non-zero value in a test C code doing something similar but response in both case was the same.

Any help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

This statement does not do anything logically.

It is sometimes added to avoid warnings in compilers and Static Analysers for unused variables