is there anything wrong with return(n) from main?

[Christoph Kuenkel]

In article <741 at vsi.UUCP>, friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
>      For some unknown reason, I have always felt uncomfortable
> doing a return(n) from main: I used exit(n) instead.  Can anybody
> think of any possible reason why a return is not a good idea? 
There are simply some implementations of _startup() that don't take care of
the returnvalue of main() (we have that problem here). You should code:
main() {
	...
	exit(retcode);
	/*NOTREACHED*/
}
This should work in any case.
christoph
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