Kevin Bowling wrote in <cak7dmtbp4l42-o01ohlopdsrfv6yailjkretdo_kl1acwva...@mail.gmail.com>: |On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 9:33 AM Ian Lepore <i...@freebsd.org> wrote: |> On Thu, 2020-12-17 at 18:22 +0200, Konstantin Belousov wrote: |>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 01:01:01PM +0000, Jessica Clarke wrote: |>>> On 17 Dec 2020, at 12:53, Konstantin Belousov <kostik...@gmail.com> |>>> wrote: |>>>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 12:41:47PM +0000, Mateusz Piotrowski |>>>> wrote: |>>>>> Author: 0mp (doc,ports committer) |>>>>> Date: Thu Dec 17 12:41:47 2020 |>>>>> New Revision: 368714 |>>>>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/368714 ... |>>>>> + return (0); |>>>> |>>>> return (0) is redundand. ... |>> Why it is bad practice ? |>> |>> C is a small language, and while knowing some quirks (like this one) |>> seems to be optional, others are not. And worse, that other quirks are ... |> How obscure is this quirk? I've been writing C code since 1983, |> including having released a freeware compiler (pre-gcc days) and |> working on a commercial C compiler. I used to moderate the c_language |> conference on BIX (back when that was a thing). I make my living |> writing C and C++ code every day. And yet, I had completely forgotten |> about this quirk. ... |In Kib’s defense I think this is commonly mentioned in C99 books (at least |that’s where I learned of it) so it depends on when and where someone |learned. There are merits approaches of being explicit or brief. I have
Nicely said. K&R C 2nd Ed. explicitly uses return(0) many times. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt) _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
