Re: RFC: Port of NetBSD cat(1)'s -f option.

Giorgos Keramidas <[email protected]> writes:
> I'm not sure.  The < 0 check is almost hardwired in my fingers,
> because of a few years of writing it this way.  Just trying to be on
> the safe side of the world, I guess.

It's also a single instruction (+ a flag check) on most architectures,
while an explicit comparison is at least two, and possibly trashes a
register.

That being said, I use == -1 myself - but I don't think < 0 is wrong,
just different.  As long as we're consistent, I don't care.

DES
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