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Date: Sun, 6 Jan 2002 10:17:07 +0200 (IST)
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On Sun, 6 Jan 2002, Damon Steward wrote:

> Hello, my name is Damon and I am trying to use the rhide compiler to
> program in C++. Every time I enter the code, save it, compile it, and
> try to run it, it says:
> 
> Program exit code: -1 (Oxffffffff)
> 
> Can you please tell me what that means and what I need to do to fix it?

It means your program returned an exit status of -1 to the operating 
system.  Any non-zero return status is by convention a sign of abnormal 
termination, so RHIDE reports it.

I'm guessing that in your case, you simply forgot to put "return 0;" at 
the end of your `main' function, so it returns some random garbage, which 
happens to be -1.