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From: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: (* func)(fred, bert)
Summary: VMS doesn't like C
Message-ID: <2085@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 21 Nov 89 15:11:15 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>
Reply-To: tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi (Tapani Tarvainen)
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <1989Nov21.015949.18974@sq.sq.com> lee@sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:

>>VMS also complains when main() returns a non-odd value.

>Can main() return 0 (which is certainly not an odd number) safely?

Safely, yes -- but it'll give an error message

%NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000

which may not be dangerous but it sure is annoying.
In VMS the "All OK" message is 1 (I think all odd numbers
will exit quietly); in some programs I have code like this:

#ifdef vms
	return 1;
#else
	return 0;
#endif

and avoid using 1 as an error code.

Isn't VMS wonderful with C?  :-(
-- 
Tapani Tarvainen    (tarvaine@tukki.jyu.fi, tarvainen@finjyu.bitnet)