From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
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Subject: Re: void main ?
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 1997 11:16:31 -0700
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Chris Croughton wrote:

> In my experience, only a few programs ever need to
> bother with the exit code, and most of the time you know
> you need to set it (programs designed to be run from make,
> for example).

DOS has builtin (bad) facilities for examining exit codes, and Unix is
built with the indication that every program returns an exit code.  Even
if you were running on a Mac, where the exit code has no meaning, it still
must be included to be ANSI compliant.

> The vast majority of my programs end in
> either return 0 or exit(0) if they exit at all.

True -- but they _must_ do this to be ANSI compliant.

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