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On Fri, Sep 01, 2023 at 02:54:56PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> I'd forgotten about the (stupid) return value.
> 
> I'm pretty sure it is an accident from the original pdp-11
> implementation from the days before C had an explicit 'return'
> statement.
> (The pdp-11 I used ran RSX/11M - so had a Fortran compiler
> not a C one.)

You're old. I did not exist in that era. And my parents were still young :-)

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Ammar Faizi