Re: systems requiring exit?

[Matthew Woehlke]

Howard Chu wrote:
> Paul Eggert wrote:
> > "Ilya N. Golubev" <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Have no systems with broken `return' at hand,
> >
> > That's the fundamental problem.  These systems are _ancient_ -- they
> > all predate C89 -- and they are so old that nobody uses them any more.
>
> As I recall when porting a number of packages to OS/390 and z/OS, all of 
> configure's conftests failed using "return" (SEGV) and I had  to change 
> them all to "exit"...

Hmm, mainframes? I want to say VMS also uses 'return 1' for success (or 
maybe it even needs exit; I'm not the one that has to deal with our VMS 
systems). But as I recall VMS doesn't have a POSIX shell either. Is 
there any VMS support that anyone is worried about?

--
Matthew
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