Re: EXIT_FAILURE problem

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From: Keith Thompson
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 23:44

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In <jeremy.810996048@suede.sw.oz.au> jeremy@sw.oz.au (Jeremy Fitzhardinge) writes:
> This is getting pretty silly.  Why have the standard define something
> completely undefined?  It would be impossible for a conforming program
> to use such a sys_exit() without knowing what OS_RET_TYPE is, which
> means it can't be used unless a specific OS is targeted, which means it
> would be non-portable.  There's no point in having the standard define
> a feature which can't be used portably.

The system() function is defined in the standard (7.10.4.5), and it
(very nearly) can't be used portably.

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