Apart from the replies to your question here, there was another interesting sub-thread on HN on this topic recently: "Also, I like how returning 0 is "xor eax,

Apart from the replies to your question here, there was another interesting sub-thread on HN on this topic recently: "Also, I like how returning 0 is "xor eax, eax"." https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13052503 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13052503 That led to multiple replies on it.