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In my case, it makes the non-automatic scanner 'grep ^fn *.c' work.
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Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 09:59:46 GMT

andrew@mbmnz.co.nz (Andrew Simmons) writes:

> Not wishing to start a religious debate here, but I notice that in the
> Plan9 source code, the return type of a function is placed on a separate
> line from the function name when the function is defined:
> 
> int
> nurdge(int a)

The normal reason for this is that various automatic program scanners
will detect this formatting and know that "nurdge" is a function
definition.

Thomas
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