From: buers AT gmx DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: writing of an exit value to screen or file
Date: 9 Mar 2000 19:15:22 GMT
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M DOT Czamai AT peak-system DOT com (Martin Czamai) wrote: 

>Is it possible to display the exit value of a program on the screen BEFORE
>it terminates or is it just possible to evaluate the value at the DOS
>prompt?

You could try:

/* possibly in some header file, also stdio.h and stlib.h
   must be included somewhere */
#define exit my_exit
void my_exit(int);

/* your program */

#undef exit

void my_exit(int exit_code)
{
  printf("exitcode is %d\n", exit_code);
  exit(exit_code);
}

Dieter