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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (* func)(fred, bert)
Message-ID: <11660@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 21 Nov 89 22:28:28 GMT
References: <2387@stl.stc.co.uk> <744@lakart.UUCP> <0175@sheol.UUCP> <812@bbm.UUCP> <89318.115828CMH117@PSUVM.BITNET> <1541@bnlux0.bnl.gov> <1989Nov21.015949.18974@sq.sq.com> <MAC.89Nov21103842@rhea.ardent.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <MAC.89Nov21103842@rhea.ardent.com> mac@ardent.com (Michael McNamara) writes:
>	In VMS, i believe, odd means ok, even means error. Hence c
>programs that return or exit 0 will be viewed by DCL as exiting with
>an error.

Except that after many rounds of arguing with the DEC VMS C respresentative
on X3J11, he agreed that VMS would fix that.  I have been told that it
indeed has been fixed in SOME releases of VMS C (I don't know which ones).