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Subject: Re: scripts/basic/bin2c: Complete error handling in main()
To: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.com>, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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>>> You could define an xprintf() macro that checks if the return value
>>> is < 0 and simply calls perror() and exit(1) in such case.
>> Does such a macro belong to any general header file from the Linux
>> software library?
> No.

Would you like to add it?

How do you think about to reuse it in more source files?

Regards,
Markus