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Re: [Patch]: Little Cleanup

> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,  deuling@de.ibm.com,
> 	  pedro_alves@portugalmail.pt,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 14:01:18 -0800
> 
> The place to document the meaning of a function's return value is at
> the function, not at each of its call sites.

So you are saying that it's normal to expect the code reader to
constantly jump to the function's definition trying to understand what
its callers try to accomplish?
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