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- From: nmm1@cus.cam.ac.uk (Nick Maclaren)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: atexit() and return from main()
- Date: 18 Jan 1996 22:32:57 GMT
- Organization: University of Cambridge, England
- Message-ID: <4dmhqp$ab2@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk>
- References: <4dhfja$j50@fg70.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <821923074snz@genesis.demon.co.uk> <4dkvjk$6q5@lyra.csx.cam.ac.uk> <TANMOY.96Jan18084025@qcd.lanl.gov>
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- In article <TANMOY.96Jan18084025@qcd.lanl.gov>,
- Tanmoy Bhattacharya <tanmoy@qcd.lanl.gov> wrote:
- >
- >Neither of these is permitted in any sense that I understand!
- >7.10.4.3: If more than one call to the exit function is executed by
- >a program, the behaviour is undefined. No `permission by omission'
- >that I can see.
-
- Egg on my face time :-)
-
- I cannot imagine how I missed that, unless it was added at a very
- late stage. Anyway, I agree that (with the 'return from main')
- clarification, the standard is now unambiguous.
-
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- Nick Maclaren,
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