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From: ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: return vs exit()
Message-ID: <497@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Date: 27 Dec 87 05:18:53 GMT
References: <10875@brl-adm.ARPA> <176@fxgrp.UUCP> <1286@laidbak.UUCP> <454@viper.Lynx.MN.Org>
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Mountain View, CA
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Summary: never return from main()

From K&R and Univ V7 I expected that just falling off the end of main()
would be equivalent to exit(0).  Then I used System V/386, and a lot of
my makefiles broke.  Now I try to end main() with
	exit(0);
	/*NOTREACHED*/
    }
The ANSI C committee would have a hard time making the portability of
programs which rely on falling of the end of main() any worse;
to ensure [that's the right spelling] that your programs will work in
>UNIX< you had better stick to exit().