Must main return a value?
Steve Emmerson
steve at groucho.ucar.edu
Sat Jun 29 13:40:09 AEST 1991
In <16577 at smoke.brl.mil> gwyn at smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <787 at taumet.com> steve at taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:
>>Except that EXIT_SUCCESS need not have the value 0. This might be
>>wrong in an ANSI environment.
>No -- while it is true that EXIT_SUCCESS might be defined as a nonzero value,
>a conforming hosted implementation must also support the exit status value 0
>as a "separate but equal" way to specify successful termination status.
In a POSIX environment, at least, EXIT_SUCCESS *is* 0. Period.
Are there non-POSIX (or pre-POSIX) environments in which EXIT_SUCCESS is
(or was) not zero (I know about VMS)?
Steve Emmerson steve at unidata.ucar.edu ...!ncar!unidata!steve
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