From: Erik Max Francis <max AT alcyone DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Hello world isn't working :(
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1998 14:18:39 -0800
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Essidartha Emerald wrote:

> My hello world doen't work :( how can this be??
> 
> #include
> 
> int main()
> {
>   printf("Hello world!\n");
>   exit(0);
> }
> 
> I got the message:
> 
> get program exit code -1 (oxffffffff)
> 0 is Zero
> Is there something wrong with the code or is the compiler not working
> right or what did I do wrong?

What is telling you what the error code is?  You don't say.

What headers are you #including?  You should be including both stdio
(for printf) and stdlib (for exit).

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