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From: karl@haddock.UUCP (Karl Heuer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: impossible problem for find(1)?
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 15:32:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Apr 29 15:32:58 1987
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In article <5797@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
[source for program "newer", ending with]
>#ifdef lint
>	return file1.st_mtime < file2.st_mtime ? 1 : 0;
>#else
>	EXIT( file1.st_mtime < file2.st_mtime ? 1 : 0 );
>#endif

I don't mean to flame the author's style, but what's wrong with
	EXIT( file1.st_mtime < file2.st_mtime ? 1 : 0 );
	/* NOTREACHED */
?  That's what the lintpragma is for.

Karl W. Z. Heuer (ima!haddock!karl or karl@haddock.isc.com), The Walking Lint