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From: thomps@gitpyr.gatech.EDU (Ken Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: "exit 0;"  - or -  "exit (0);" ?
Message-ID: <2661@gitpyr.gatech.EDU>
Date: Tue, 18-Nov-86 09:52:32 EST
Article-I.D.: gitpyr.2661
Posted: Tue Nov 18 09:52:32 1986
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References: <1512@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
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Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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Summary: Ok for Bourne shell

In article <1512@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>, braner@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (braner) writes:
> While K&R explicitly say that exit() is a function, I commonly see
> the parens dropped.  Is that "legal"? Does it work on existing compilers?

exit must be a function in C. However,

                             exit 0;

is legitimate Bourne shell syntax. Is it possible that you have seen this
in a shell script not a C program ?


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