Date: Sat, 6 Jun 1998 05:25:28 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: grog@lemis.com, cc@swing.ca.sandia.gov, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: style(9) error? Message-ID: <199806060525.WAA28704@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199806052105.QAA02287@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Jun 5, 98 04:05:43 pm
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> >> I always thought that blocks evaluated to their last statements, but > >> it seems not.. > > Not in C. You might be thinking of Algol 68 or LISP. > > Or quite possibly Perl, or the comma construct of C. This is a common misconception. The "return" value being examined is actually the normal register used for return values. This (incorrectly) presumes a calling convention. Don't use it. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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