Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: is there anything wrong with return(n) from main?
Message-ID: <11441@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 1 Jul 88 13:14:23 GMT
References: <741@vsi.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Distribution: comp
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <741@vsi.UUCP> friedl@vsi.UUCP (Stephen J. Friedl) writes:
| Hi net.folks,
| 
|      For some unknown reason, I have always felt uncomfortable
| doing a return(n) from main: I used exit(n) instead.  Can anybody

  Some versions of C don't use the value of the return from main as a
call to exit. Instead, the assume that if you don't call exit with a
value you terminated normally and should have a zero exit status. Your
gut feeling is a good one, it will save you a lot of pain in the long
run, I suspect.

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