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From: lamonts@Sds.Sdsc.EDU (Steve Lamont)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: RE:  VMS and exit();
Message-ID: <11537@brl-adm.ARPA>
Date: 29 Jan 88 05:39:08 GMT
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"M. Warner Losh" <hydrovax@nmtsun.nmt.EDU> quotes me as follows:

> In article <11439@brl-adm.ARPA>, lamonts@Sds.Sdsc.EDU (Steve Lamont) writes:
> <
> <At the risk of flogging a deceased equine, I tested Rahul's exit(0) contention.
> <The results are shown below:
> <
> <$ type foo.c
> <     exit( 0 );
> < %NONAME-W-NOMSG, Message number 00000000
> <
> [my miscellaneous ranting deleted to preserve bandwidth and to protect the
> guilty (me...;-) ]
>
>    you must have version 2.2 of the VMS compiler (I have the same one),
> because I posted the same results a few days ago.  People tell me that
> C version 2.3 corrects this problem (it really breaks a lot of code,
> but that is beside the point).
>      
> Does anybody WHO HAS 2.3 KNOW FOR SURE?

Sorry... I forgot to say that I _did_ compile under VMS C 2.3... in fact I
just double checked it.  Interestingly enough, if you leave off the 
 
    exit(0);

and just drop out the bottom, you don't get a message.  I don't know if that
was the case under 2.2 or not, since I don't have access to the old version
of the compiler.  Maybe that was what your informant was referring to.  

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