exit(-1)

[Peter da Silva]

I don't understand the problem.

On VMS, neither 1 nor 0 are valid exit codes.

So have the exit function map 0 into SUCCESS, and 1 into FAIL.
Let anything else through unchanged...

Or go with VMS$EXIT(VMS_CODE);.
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