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Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script

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Manfred <invalid@invalid.add> writes:
[...]
> It may be worth noting (if not, please forgive my redundancy) that there 
> are in fact two outputs from the C program here:
> 1) the return value from main() - this (int) value is returned to the OS 
> as exit status of the process. Being constrained as an int value (a 
> single machine word in most (all?) architectures) its use is often 
> limited to little more than a success/failure code.

In fact it's typically more limited than that.  On POSIX systems, for
example, only the low-order 8 bits of the result are passed to the
environment.

The C standard only specifies 0, EXIT_SUCCESS, and EXIT_FAILURE as
meaningful values.  0 and EXIT_SUCCESS both denote success; typically
EXIT_SUCCESS==0, but that's not guaranteed.  It's not entirely
clear that a conforming implementation is required to distinguish
between success and failure, but since this applies only to hosted
implementations I'd be surprised if there were any that don't.

-- 
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Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
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obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-04-30 04:36 -0700
  Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Noob <root@127.0.0.1> - 2017-04-30 14:48 +0200
    Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-01 02:25 -0700
      Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-01 08:46 -0700
        Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-03 02:12 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-03 11:48 +0100
  Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-04-30 16:16 +0100
    Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-01 04:18 -0700
      Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-01 13:41 +0100
        Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 05:10 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-03 15:00 +0100
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-03 08:55 -0700
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-03 09:02 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-03 17:22 +0100
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 01:43 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:06 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-09 00:35 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2017-05-09 13:59 +0200
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 02:45 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2017-05-08 04:39 -0700
                solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-09 02:43 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-09 15:06 +0100
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-10 01:03 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-10 11:18 +0100
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-12 02:26 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-12 11:51 +0100
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-12 03:49 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Manfred <invalid@invalid.add> - 2017-05-10 23:21 +0200
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-10 16:23 -0700
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-11 15:57 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-11 18:57 -0400
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-11 18:38 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-11 18:46 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-11 21:11 -0400
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Robert Wessel <robertwessel2@yahoo.com> - 2017-05-12 01:51 -0500
                Re: solved Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-14 23:49 -0400
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-09 07:46 -0700
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script mark.bluemel@gmail.com - 2017-05-03 09:06 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2017-05-03 17:02 +0000
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 01:51 -0700
      Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Manfred <noname@invalid.add> - 2017-05-04 18:21 +0200
        Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-08 03:52 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2017-05-08 08:38 -0400
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:14 -0700
          Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script "James R. Kuyper" <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2017-05-08 12:17 -0400
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 09:26 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script jameskuyper@verizon.net - 2017-05-08 11:02 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-08 11:39 -0700
              Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-09 07:16 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2017-05-09 08:18 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script fred flintstone <fred@server.invalid> - 2017-05-10 00:29 -0700
                Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2017-05-10 05:26 -0700
            Re: obtaining a c value from a perl script Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-05-08 18:20 +0100

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