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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: exit(-1)
Message-ID: <1915@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 88 21:31:07 GMT
References: <502@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> <6935@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1179@wjvax.UUCP> <7133@brl-smoke.ARPA> <551@cresswell.quintus.UUCP>
Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <551@cresswell.quintus.UUCP> ok@quintus.UUCP (Richard A. O'Keefe) 
writes:
>Everything that has been said about VMS and exit(0) so far is false.
...
>I found that *none* of them resulted in any message from DCL;
>*all* of them produced a quiet exit.

The time frame of discussion is important.  DEC has recently revised
its C compiler for VMS.  Some things formerly missing are now present,
and the old exit(0) problem ("No text for message 0000" etc.) has been
fixed.
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi