Re: EXIT_SUCCES != EXIT_FAILURE?

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From: Dan Pop
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 1996 02:01

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In <tompa.827763954@news> tompa@ida.liu.se (Thomas Padron-McCarthy) writes:

>So I wonder: Does the standard guarantee that EXIT_SUCCESS and
>EXIT_FAILURE are different?

No.  If the host environment doesn't support the concept of termination
status, both macros can legally evaluate to the same value.

Dan
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Date: 26 Mar 96 02:01:51 GMT
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