12 Apr
2017
12 Apr
'17
8:55 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Noel Chiappa via cctalk once stated:
Yeah, I'm having a hard time with that too. I mean, pedantically, it
should be:
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(void) { return EXIT_SUCCESS; }
where EXIT_SUCCESS is 0 on every plaform except for some obscure system no
one has heard of but managed to influence the C committee back in the late
80s.
From: Alfred
M. Szmidt
No even the following program:
int main (void) { return 0; }
is guaranteed to work
I'm missing something: why not? PS: There probably is something to the sports car
analogy, but I'm not going
to take a position on that one! :-) Interesting side-question though: is
assembler more or less like a sports car than C? :-)
One thing for sure---assembly langauge (for a given architecture) is
probably better defined (less undefined/underspecified behavior) than C.
-spc