Re: Compilation problems??

In article <33F359DD.4855_at_ici.net>, Alicia Carla Longstreet <carla_at_ici.net> writes:

|> There is NOTHING in the standard that requires a program to return
|> either EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE, the Standard allows ANY INTEGER
|> VALUE to be returned, with either exit() or a simple return.

However a program which exits with a status other than 0, EXIT_SUCCESS, or EXIT_FAILURE is not a strictly-conforming C program. The behavior of exit statuses not mentioned above is implementation-defined, i.e, on one platform "exit(1);" might indicate success, on another it might indicate failure, and on yet another it might even indicate that the program "almost worked."

Regards,

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