Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: SCO XENIX bug prevents smail from working correctly.
Message-ID: <12994@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 19 Jan 89 19:05:48 GMT
References: <31@elgar.UUCP>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <31@elgar.UUCP> ag@elgar.UUCP (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
| 
| The SCO XENIX C compiler (mine is version 2.2) does not handle a
| return from main() correctly.  A return from main should be the same
| as an exit from main.  It isn't.

  There was a discussion of this in one of the C groups, and my
recollection of the result was that this is the way C works. When you
exit(status) the result is defined, and if you return(status) it isn't
always the same.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me