Re: return vs. exit(), ANSI vs. POSIX

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From: Norman Diamond
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 1992 01:20

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In article <1992Sep25.141556.7799@news2.cis.umn.edu> fin@unet.umn.edu (Craig A. Finseth) writes:
>Personal opinion follows:
>	Considering that return from main() is handled specially by
>	the compiler,

Yes.  (By the implementation somewhere, not necessarily in the compiler.)

>	              I consider _any_ recursive invocation of main()
>	to be suspect and hence not reasonable.

The standard considers recursive invocation of main() to be allowable and
reasonable.  (Logically reasonable.  The standard does not judge aesthetics.)
RTFS.
--
Norman Diamond       diamond@jit081.enet.dec.com
If this were the company's opinion, I wouldn't be allowed to post it.
"Yeah -- bad wiring.  That was probably it.  Very bad."

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Subject: Re: return vs. exit(), ANSI vs. POSIX
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