On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 06:45:29PM -0400, Ben Peart wrote: > > Since the debug output has been removed and the caller isn't > > checking the return value there is no reason to keep calulating > > and returning a value. > > > > Did a quick search and you're right, nothing is using the return value. No > reason to spend time calculating it. Looks good. This is actually one we can reasonably trust the compiler to check for us. Though of course it doesn't hurt to look at the callers and make sure that it's sane that they do not care about this return value (I don't know merge-recursive.c very well, but the current return value does seem kind of useless). -Peff