erd@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Ethan R. Dicks) (11/28/88)
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I have been using Lattice C 4.01 for a while, and noticed that when I return
an error code, the AmigaDOS command 'why' gives a large multi-digit number.
Here is a sample of code which does it...
#include <stdio.h>
main(argc,argv)
int argc;
char *argv[];
{
if (argc < 2 ) {
printf("Usage: command datafile\n");
exit(1);
}
return(0);
}
If the number of args is 2 or more, why tells me that the last command did
not set a return code... no problem.
If the number of args is 1 (run from CLI), I get the "usage" message and
why tells me that the return code is 1673844.
Why is this?
-ethan
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