On Fri, 18 Jan 2013, Bruce Evans wrote:
The orignal BSD style guide (/usr/src/admin/style/style) actually says not to use [non-arbitrary] sequential values to indicate all exit points: ... but was changed in FreeBSD to say something quite different: ... and then was changed to say something even further removed from the original: ... I thought that it was changed to at least mention the Standard but not very useful EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE. It should also not disallow an error code of 2 which is often used for more severe errors.
PS: I forgot to mention the NetBSD style guide (/usr/src/share/misc/style). At least the 2005 version of it says: % /* % * Exits should be EXIT_SUCCESS on success, and EXIT_FAILURE on % * failure. Don't denote all the possible exit points, using the % * integers 1 through 127. Avoid obvious comments such as "Exit % * 0 on success.". Since main is a function that returns an int, % * prefer returning from it, than calling exit. % */ % return EXIT_SUCCESS; It's interesting that it covers another point in this thread (of whether to return or exit from main()). I like returning from main(), but don't like requiring it. This and other parts of the NetBSD version also remove the examples and the requirement of spaces around return values. Bruce _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
