One more note about exit statuses

May 19, 2010

Last week, I mentioned in passing that Windows allows the full range of 32-bit exit codes. That’s true, but only if you directly call ExitProcess() (or its less-friendly kin TerminateProcess()). If you just call exit() (or return from main(), which implicitly calls exit()), then like in the *NIX world, you only get the bottom 8 […]

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