linux-kernel - Re: scripts/basic/bin2c: Complete error handling in main()

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Message-ID: <917e7b99-bb75-80b2-a356-918d6128705a@users.sourceforge.net>
Date:   Fri, 4 Nov 2016 13:48:51 +0100
From:   SF Markus Elfring <elfring@...rs.sourceforge.net>
To:     Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>, linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: scripts/basic/bin2c: Complete error handling in main()

>>> 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