Public Apoligy

Im sorry for my last posts it got kind of out of control.Next time i'll try and have a better attitude and i will use code tags. By the way if u dont mind telling me why u return 0 in int main instead of some other number.


so lets start off a new level:D

I haven't been around lately, for the past couple weeks, so I don't know what happened in your previous threads, and I don't feel like searching..

I'll take it this is a sincere public apology.

With that said, to answer your question, return 0; is not needed at the end of main; however, it is good practice to type it in, and if not placed will be returned by the program. it means successful execution.

you return 0; for sucess, or return (somethingotherthanzero) for failure. Just...convention.

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Originally posted by blackrat364
you return 0; for sucess, or return (somethingotherthanzero) for failure. Just...convention.

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Being picky... it's not "somethingotherthanzero" according to the standard. Your statement assumes that a return of 9999 might be valid, which in a lot of cases it won't be.

Code:

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control is returned to the host environment. If status is zero or EXIT_SUCCESS, an
implementation defined form of the status successful termination is returned.
If status is EXIT_FAILURE, an implementation defined form of
the status unsuccessful termination is returned.
Otherwise the status returned is implementation defined.

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