Re: Must main return a value?

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From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 19:40

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In article <787@taumet.com> steve@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.

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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
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Subject: Re: Must main return a value?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 19:40:16 GMT
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