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Re: How to use 'return' in c?

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From: Roger Chaplin
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 23:15
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Rich Wenner (wenner@einstein.eds.com) wrote:
: In article <1992Nov4.231347.26999@u.washington.edu> chuckb@stein.u.washington.edu (Charles Bass) writes:
: :After several people wrote me on the use of EXIT_SUCCESS and
: :EXIT_FAILURE  and their inability to locate those files on their
: :systems I checked K&R 2ndEd for the definitive answer...
: 
: Since when is K&R2 the Standard?
: 
: :" void exit(int status)
: :... How status is returned to the environment is
: :implementation-dependent, but zero is taken as successful
: :termination.  The values EXIT_SUCCESS and EXIT_FAILURE may also
: :be used."                                              ^^^
: :
: :Because the word *may* is used I must assume that you either get
: :it or you don't depending on your compiler/OS.
: 
: Don't assume.  RTFS, which simply states that these macros are defined in
: stdlib.h.  See section 4.10.

<Sigh>.  I just retrieved and built gcc-2.3.1, and these *still* aren't
in there.

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