Re: the mystery of <ctrl-d>

In article <8IadnWyYCcMrRajbnZ2dnUVZ8tvinZ2d@xxxxxx>,
Richard Heathfield <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In fact, I can't think of any use whatsoever for exit().

terminating the program somewhere other then main().

And I can't think of any use whatsoever for that, either.

If C had a reasonable exception mechanism I might agree, but writing
all your functions to return and check errors is too tedious in cases
where there's nothing sensible to do about the error other than exit.

-- Richard

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