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Article #13711Manx 5.0 bug -- response from Manx
From: Dan Barrett
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 01:24
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1990 01:24
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I informed Mike Spille of Manx about the bug I mentioned in this
group (getchar() at EOF causes the operating system to say "cannot load
file"). Indeed, _main() is returning -1 to the operating system, causing
this error. The workaround is to explicit return(0) or exit(0) in your
main().
However, Manx does NOT plan to fix this bug! Here is the response.
>Date: 14 Feb 90 16:46:33 EST
>From: Mike Spille/Manx <71545.1466@CompuServe.COM>
>To: <barrett>
>Subject: Re: Bug in getchar() reported by me earlier
>
>We do not plan to change this behavior, as with the current library
>implimentation it would not be easy to do so (this is because it's not
>possible to tell whether or not any value was actually returned from
>main() or not). Incidentally, you can say return (0) instead of
>exit (0), from within main, if you prefer that syntax.
>
> -Mike
Yecch.
Dan
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