Re: EXIT_SUCCESS guaranteed to always be zero?

From: Grumble (invalid_at_kma.eu.org)
Date: 11/27/03 

Date: Thu, 27 Nov 2003 15:07:33 +0100

James Kuyper wrote:
> Implementation-defined is a subset of "unspecified". The alternatives
> for "unspecified" are not required to be "few", the only requirement is
> that there be at least two of them. In this case, EXIT_SUCCESS can be
> defined as expanding into any string of characters that constitutes an
> integer constant expression that can be safely converted to an int; the
> expression's value need not itself be within the valid range of an int.
> There is a discrete infinity of such expressions, which becomes finite,
> but still huge, if you put an upper limit on the length of that
> character string.

I think you should lay off the -pedantic flag for a while :-þ

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