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

[William E. Davidsen Jr]

In article <741 at vsi.UUCP> friedl at vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
| Hi net.folks,
| 
|      For some unknown reason, I have always felt uncomfortable
| doing a return(n) from main: I used exit(n) instead.  Can anybody

  Some versions of C don't use the value of the return from main as a
call to exit. Instead, the assume that if you don't call exit with a
value you terminated normally and should have a zero exit status. Your
gut feeling is a good one, it will save you a lot of pain in the long
run, I suspect.

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