On Thu, 2013-07-25 at 13:24 +0800, Chen Gang wrote: > For an extern function, if the performance is not sensible, better to > have the return value which can indicate the failure with the negative > number.
The return value is meaningless. We don't have a good way to handle it. It has no defined semantics. What does "failure" means in that case ? Nothing ! So just remove it. Ben. _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev