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From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Manx 5.0 bug -- response from Manx
Message-ID: <5158@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Date: 16 Feb 90 04:16:43 GMT
References: <4228@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva)
Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston
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In article <4228@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU> barrett@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Dan Barrett) writes:
> >From: Mike Spille/Manx <71545.1466@CompuServe.COM>
> >We do not plan to change this behavior, as with the current library
> >[...] because it's not possible to tell whether or not any value was
> >actually returned from main() or not.

> 	Yecch.

They're right. Main() should return a valid value, either by calling exit()
or by calling return with a value. Falling off the end of main() is not a
valid way to return from a program.
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