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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: impossible problem for find(1)?
Message-ID: <5815@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 15:04:55 EDT
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Posted: Thu Apr 30 15:04:55 1987
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References: <2645@phri.UUCP> <6454@mimsy.UUCP> <5797@brl-smoke.ARPA> <465@haddock.UUCP>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <465@haddock.UUCP> karl@haddock.ISC.COM.UUCP (Karl Heuer) writes:
-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.

Because it doesn't work.  The main() function then fails to return a value,
and lint detects that (or at least it CAN detect that if it's smart enough).