Christian Biere <christianbiere@gmx.de> writes:
> David Laight wrote:
>
>> There is absolutely nothing wrong woth functions having multiple 'return'
>> statments in order to save the human reader having to parse the rest of
>
> That cannot be generalized. This has to be decided on a case-by-case basis

Sure, but in this case, it seemed more clear with returns in the code.

> and in many cases either option has no advantage over the other. The
> disadvantage of multiple return statements are:
>
>  * more code

more _source_ code. :)

>  * variables exist in scopes in which they are not used.
>  * can easily cause resource leaks

A good reason to run Coverity over the code. :)

Either way, this is not so important to fight over I think.

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Perry E. Metzger		perry@piermont.com