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From: eggert@twinsun.com (Paul Eggert)
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Subject: Re: Must main return a value?
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Date: 28 Jun 91 18:06:36 GMT
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steve@taumet.com (Stephen Clamage) writes:

>michi@ptcburp.ptcbu.oz.au (Michael Henning) writes:
>>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.

But section 4.10.4.3 says that exit(0) and exit(EXIT_SUCCESS) have the
same effect even if EXIT_SUCCESS!=0.

Anyway, Posix 1003.1-1990 (section 8.1) says that EXIT_SUCCESS==0,
so hosts where EXIT_SUCCESS!=0 are an endangered species.