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From: steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Must main return a value?
Message-ID: <787@taumet.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 16:46:19 GMT
References: <7830001@hpwrce.HP.COM> <1991Jun28.043342.27540@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au>
Organization: Taumetric Corporation, San Diego
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michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:

>The upshot is that the program is strictly conforming, but the exit
>status the OS gets to see is undefined.

No.  A strictly-conforming program "shall not produce output dependent
on any unspecified, undefined, or implementation-defined behavior"
(section 1.7).

>So it pays to write
>int main(void) { exit(0); }

Except that EXIT_SUCCESS need not have the value 0.  This might be
wrong in an ANSI environment.
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Steve Clamage, TauMetric Corp, steve@taumet.com