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From: daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Strange lint mumblings
Message-ID: <416@marob.MASA.COM>
Date: 13 Dec 88 17:00:06 GMT
Reply-To: daveh@marob.masa.com (Dave Hammond)
Organization: ESCC  New York City
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Can anyone explain why the statement:

    exit(0);	/* followed immediately by main's closing brace */

causes lint to complain:

ma-main.c
==============
(137)  warning: main() returns random value to invocation environment


[yes, "exit(0)" is the statement on line 137 of the file ma-main.c]

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