Fair enough. I've certainly used that in other code (eg wrappers around mallocs with checks etc) but this was specifically for that ".c" file so it didn't reall

Fair enough. I've certainly used that in other code (eg wrappers around mallocs with checks etc) but this was specifically for that ".c" file so it didn't really matter. (Also, not sure we could assume the code optimisation was all that great on the compilers back then :-) )