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Re: main's return rule

From Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: main's return rule
Date 2017-10-02 10:12 -0400
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Keith Thompson wrote:

>Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> writes:
>[...]
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>>Hence the C convention for the return code of main() - 0 is "good", 
>>non-zero is "not as good".
>>    
>>
>[...]
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>That's not a convention that's defined by the C standard, and there
>are systems that follow different conventions.  C
>
Yeah - it's really outside of the C standard...  just trying
to motivate the reasons for EXIT_SUCCESS/EXIT_FAILURE...

   - Dave R. -

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main's return rule fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 09:49 -0700
  Re: main's return rule fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 10:04 -0700
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    Re: main's return rule fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-09-28 11:10 -0700
  Re: main's return rule Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> - 2017-09-28 15:13 -0400
    Re: main's return rule Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-09-28 12:43 -0700
      Re: main's return rule Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> - 2017-10-02 10:12 -0400
      Re: main's return rule herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-10 13:54 -0800
        Re: main's return rule Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-12-10 14:39 -0800
          Re: main's return rule herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-13 05:01 -0800
            Re: main's return rule Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-12-13 09:17 -0800
              Re: main's return rule scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2017-12-13 18:31 +0000
              Re: main's return rule herrmannsfeldt@gmail.com - 2017-12-14 11:51 -0800
      Re: main's return rule Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2017-12-13 20:36 +0100
        Re: main's return rule "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-12-13 15:14 -0500
        Re: main's return rule supercat@casperkitty.com - 2017-12-14 07:47 -0800
          Re: main's return rule Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2017-12-14 20:18 +0100
    Re: main's return rule fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 07:50 -0700
      Re: main's return rule Chad <cdalten@gmail.com> - 2017-09-29 08:14 -0700
      Re: main's return rule gordonb.3z6ou@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2017-09-29 13:01 -0500

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