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(check_file): Explain why we have separate if' and else'

blocks when the code in the else block could handle both cases.
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Jim Meyering
1999-08-22 11:31:08 +00:00
parent 2638bf642c
commit 7a7ef5ff5b

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@@ -238,6 +238,11 @@ check_file (const char *infile, const char *outfile)
initbuffer (thisline);
initbuffer (prevline);
/* This duplication is to distinguish the common case (in which none of the
following options has been specified: --count, -repeated, --all-repeated,
--unique) from the others. In the common case, we can output each new
line right away, without waiting to see if the next one is different). */
if (mode == output_all && countmode == count_none)
{
char *prevfield IF_LINT (= NULL);