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On 02/13/2013 03:22 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 03:15:26PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Not really, since exit() does that.  We might want it for clarity's
>> sake, though.
> 
> Well, I would add a comment only then and teach the tool when parsing
> exit() to know that - no need for fixing perfectly good code only for a
> tool's sake.
> 

No, but clarity is good.  It isn't just the tool that might get annoyed.

	-hpa