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To: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Subject: Re: Style 9 nitpicking question 
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In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 16 Aug 2001 11:10:53 BST."
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Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 23:38:24 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>
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In message <200108161010.f7GAAsK68419@grimreaper.grondar.za> Mark Murray writes:
: 1) That "(void)" is useless by any metric that I am able to determine
:    (WARNS=2, BDECFLAGS etc), and gets in the way of linting. Is there
:    any reason to continue to advocate its use by this example? There
:    is no other reference to "voiding-out" of return values.

lint complains on old systems.

: 2) Is this (fprintf(stderr, "...", ...); exit(n);) really better than
:    errx(1, "...", ...); ?
: 
: Any objections to changing the 
: 
: 	(void)fprintf(stderr, "usage: f [-ab]\n");
: 	exit(EX_USAGE);
: 
: to
: 
: 	errx(EX_USAGE, "usage: f [-ab]\n");
: 
: ??

Not from me.

Warner

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