Re: systems requiring exit?

[Paul Eggert]

Howard Chu <address@hidden> writes:

> As I recall, they implemented a fairly old draft of POSIX threads (and
> not the same draft version as DCE or AIX) and with a compiler named
> "c89" it's a given that they're not up to C99 specs. But still
> reasonably modern.
>
> http://www.openldap.org/faq/data/cache/719.html

If they conform to C89 there should be no problem.  In C89, returning
N from 'main' is like 'exit(N)'.  This thread is about pre-C89 systems
where the return value from 'main' is mangled.