On Wed, Nov 10, 2021 at 17:35:45 +0000, Robert Elz wrote: > And second, does C99 really promise: > Remove unnecessary call to exit(0); returning from main is equivalent > since C99. > in the sense that simply falling out of main() is exit(0)?
Surprisingly - yes. Derek M. Jones in his "The New C Standard. An Economic and Cultural Commentary." notes about the relevant passage in the standard text: 5.1.2.2.3 Program termination [...] reaching the } that terminates the main function returns a value of 0. Commentary The standard finally having to bow to sloppy existing practices. I'd say the previous change to take advantage of this was profoudly misguided. -uwe
