Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 10:58:03 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: sobomax@freebsd.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, rdivacky@freebsd.org, ed@freebsd.org, marius@alchemy.franken.de, christoph.mallon@gmx.de Subject: Re: C99: Suggestions for style(9) Message-ID: <49FB382B.6030406@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <20090501.082020.698246310.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <49F4070C.2000108@gmx.de> <20090501112239.GA23199@alchemy.franken.de> <49FADEF3.5010106@gmx.de> <20090501.082020.698246310.imp@bsdimp.com>
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M. Warner Losh wrote: [...] (about return ();) > > It has been an example used for the past 15 years at least as to why > to do this... I don't know how many people have actually used the > ability to do this in code. I have done so.. > > : Also I consider this as gross abuse: Macro names shall be in all > : uppercase, so it is clear that there is a macro at work. Therefore > : "return" is not a candidate. So this would violate yet another rule in > : style(9) (the original return already violates the no-redundant > : parentheses rule). > : Also I would not mention __func__: there were objections against using > : it in the past (though I, logically, prefer its use). > > It is a debugging aid, but one of dubious value for a far more > fundamental reason: > > return; > > will break any macro. > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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