Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin/rev

[Jason Smethers <jason@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> It's not about supporting it or not. It works fine either way.
> The advantage is that exit() pretty much means exactly that, exit the
> program and not return from some mysterious function. The advantage of
> return is that it is the normal way of leaving a stack frame. Both
> have there uses.

So main() is a mysterious function?


> It's nice when debugging code to be able to tell how many operations
> already failed :)

Except in this case the number of operations is irrelivant. You get 1 or 
0 back from the program. You may as well add the code yourself if you 
ever need to debug it.


- Jason