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From: Felix Janda <felix.janda@posteo.de>
To: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Cc: kbd@lists.altlinux.org
Subject: Re: [kbd] [PATCH 5/5] Replace error() by fprintf() and perror()
Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 21:34:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150506193409.GA30407@euler> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150504195148.GA3967@euler>

Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> I prefer to save compatibility with the error() function. It costs
> nothing, but it does not require to keep in mind the difference
> between two implementations.

There is a small cost (which might not be relevant for kbd):
The compiler does not know that kbd_error() will not return in most
cases and might emit warnings about possibly uninitialized variables
because of that.

Just to mentoin it...

Felix


  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-06 19:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-22 19:06 [kbd] [PATCH 5/5] Replace error() by fprintf() and perror() Felix Janda
2015-04-26 11:18 ` Alexey Gladkov
2015-04-28 22:08 ` Alexey Gladkov
2015-04-29 18:11   ` Felix Janda
2015-04-30 19:21     ` Alexey Gladkov
2015-04-30 20:36       ` Felix Janda
2015-05-04 18:38     ` Alexey Gladkov
     [not found]       ` <20150504195148.GA3967@euler>
2015-05-04 23:10         ` Alexey Gladkov
2015-05-06 19:34         ` Felix Janda [this message]
2015-05-11 22:00           ` Alexey Gladkov

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