maint: avoid "magic number exit".

[bison.git] / etc / bench.pl.in

diff --git a/etc/bench.pl.in b/etc/bench.pl.in
index 829a760c2227be26eb14d4821504f0c93481911b..ff3ce230cd5dd72533c726a2e7f880a15f557693 100755 (executable)
--- a/etc/bench.pl.in
+++ b/etc/bench.pl.in
@@ -291,9 +291,8 @@ yylex (void)
 static int
 power (int base, int exponent)
 {
+  assert (0 <= exponent);
   int res = 1;
-  if (exponent < 0)
-    exit (3);
   for (/* Niente */; exponent; --exponent)
     res *= base;
   return res;