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- From: danpop@mail.cern.ch (Dan Pop)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: EXIT_SUCCES != EXIT_FAILURE?
- Date: 26 Mar 96 02:01:51 GMT
- Organization: CERN European Lab for Particle Physics
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- In <tompa.827763954@news> tompa@ida.liu.se (Thomas Padron-McCarthy) writes:
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- >So I wonder: Does the standard guarantee that EXIT_SUCCESS and
- >EXIT_FAILURE are different?
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- No. If the host environment doesn't support the concept of termination
- status, both macros can legally evaluate to the same value.
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- Dan
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