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From: jac@ssibbs.UUCP (James Crotinger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Any good makes out there?
Message-ID: <97@ssibbs.UUCP>
Date: 15 Feb 89 03:51:55 GMT
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In article <8902120648.AA14117@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>, dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) writes:
> 
> 	NO return at all (i.e. garbage in D0) is equivalent to returning 0.
> If you want to return an exit code, you need to use exit(n).  Unless you
> *were* using exit(), in which case the first comment applies.
> 
  A couple of the books I have, one on ANSI C, state that returning a value
from main should be identical to calling exit(). In fact, they say it is
perfectly allowable for the startup code to execute main() with the following
call:

  exit(main(argc,argv));

  In this respect, Lattice is in error since it prototypes main as being 
type void, where all the books I've seen (ANSI books) say main should have
type int.

> 				-Matt

  Jim

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                               Jim Crotinger
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