negative error status: gcc vs. cl

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jul  8 11:49, Daniel Lungu wrote:
> Feel like bash tcsh on Cygwin mess up with negative exit status from a cl
> compiled .exe

The answer is "don't do that".  Use positive values in the range from
0 to 255.  See
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/exit.html

Corinna

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