[LCP]'return' statement

Bill Rausch BRausch at owt.com
Wed Feb 9 14:28:01 UTC 2005


At 5:56 +0000 2/9/05, preeth k wrote:
>Hi,
>Can you tell me what this line of C code means?
>
>   return 1l;  (or, return 0l;)
>
>Preeth.

Means to return a "long" value of zero or one.  Should be unnecessary 
in an ANSI C compiler.  A simple 0 or 1 would be promoted to long if 
required by the function prototype.


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