Re: Help please!!

["Binand Raj S." <binand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Arun Sharma forced the electrons to say:
> Exit status being 0 on normal termination is just a convention. It's up
> to the main program to return 0 when it finishes normally. If it returns
> 100, exit(3) will just return 100. No questions asked.

Hi Arun,

I didn't get this.

Consider the following:

int main (void) {
   exit (3);
   return 100;
}

Do you mean to say that this program will fetch me a return value of 100? I
doubt it.

IIRC, the return value of main and any exit() call are synonymous. The startup
code treats these two cases the same.

Please explain.

Binand

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