Benjamin Peterson wrote:

Why not just have it return 0 on error? This would be more consistent with API
functions that return "false" values like NULL

But that would make it confusingly different from all the other
functions that return ints. The NULL convention is only used
when the function returns a pointer.

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Greg
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