Re: Speaking of signals...

[Uri Guttman]

>>>>> "n" == nick  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  n> It is my personal style to use non-NULL value as "flag" - it dates 
  n> back to "my" RTOS on TI's 16-bit micros where memory was precious - 
  n> having a flag and a value was wasteful.

in my rt-11 assembly and heavy c days i did it too. i prolly stopped
doing it with perl as it doesn't seem to matter as much. we waste so
much ram as it is. :)

uri

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