why is parameter N increased by 1 ?

I'm just curious about this increment in params.c :

                /* Set number of syscalls to do */
                case 'N':
                        syscalls_todo = strtoll(optarg, NULL, 10) + 1;
                        break;

MfG/Sincerely
Toralf Förster
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