Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-lcc!ames!ll-xn!mit-eddie!mit-amt!mit-caf!vlcek From: vlcek@mit-caf.MIT.EDU (Jim Vlcek) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Parentheses Message-ID: <1077@mit-caf.MIT.EDU> Date: 7 Jul 88 02:17:15 GMT References: <326@marob.MASA.COM> Reply-To: vlcek@mit-caf.UUCP (Jim Vlcek) Organization: Microsystems Technology Laboratories, MIT Lines: 10 In article <326@marob.MASA.COM> daveh@marob.UUCP (Dave Hammond) writes: >Is different code produce by the compiler for "return n" and "return(n)" ? Just as a side note, it's worth keeping in mind that return is a C statement, not a function. exit(), on the other hand, is a library function. With this in mind, ``return n'' is probably preferable to ``return (n)''. -- Jim Vlcek vlcek@caf.mit.edu !{ihnp4,harvard,seismo,rutgers}!mit-eddie!mit-caf!vlcek