Re: Compilation problems??

From: John Winters <john_at_polo.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/08/17
Message-ID: <5t6ds2$15d@polo.demon.co.uk>#1/1

In article <33F39B9C.5E4C_at_ici.net>,
Alicia Carla Longstreet <carla_at_ici.net> wrote: [snip]
>
>Exit codes are NEVER implementation defined, they are ALWAYS defined by
>the programmer and should be specified in the documentation.

I know an ISO standard which would disagree with you.

>If I write a program and decide that exit(99) indicates failure due to
>an inability to allocate sufficient memory for a data object, that is
>EXACTLY what an exit code of 99 will mean ON EVERY SINGLE PLATFORM/OS
>THAT I CHOOSE TO PORT MY PROGRAM TO.
Nope.

John

-- 
John Winters.  Wallingford, Oxon, England.

Received on Sun Aug 17 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT