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by WhyNotHugo 25 days ago
Why does libc do this instead of simply returning that same negative number?
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matheusmoreira 25 days ago
Legacy. It's always been this way and it can't change without breaking everything.
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rcxdude 25 days ago
POSIX, basically. It was already a convention by the time linux/glibc implemented it.
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