On 2018 Mar 08 17:33:38, you wrote to Martin Gregorie:

 >> Why would you want to know that? All the assembler operations using the
 >> arguments will be inside myfunction() and, unless the code is
 >> calculating a result to be returned and used elsewhere, the returned
 >> value is probably to report success or failure.

 mf> If it returns success or failure, why return 1 of 4 billion possible
 mf> values?

because you can kill two birds with one stone if you want to know what the
value is in addition to the success/failure status... remember that on some
systems, any negative number is a failure while any positive number is a
success... some systems use zero for success and any other number for false...
it depends on the coder and how OCD they are as to what they return for
whatever reasons... who are we to question them? ;)

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