> Matthew Woehlke wrote: >> Hmm, mainframes? I want to say VMS also uses 'return 1' for success >> (or maybe it even needs exit; I'm not the one that has to deal with >> our VMS systems). As I understand it, on VMS, exit(N) is equivalent to main returning N; it's just that N==1 also means success. So this is an independent issue from whether to use exit or return. Howard Chu <hyc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > Yes, there is a POSIX environment available on the mainframes. It's > not the most stable thing in the world (return from main() shouldn't > cause a SEGV, obviously) but it's possible to do useful work in it. I > ported all of BerkeleyDB, OpenSSL, Cyrus SASL, Heimdal Kerberos, and > OpenLDAP, and it all ran with reasonable performance. In that case, it sounds like we should suggest to people that they use the POSIX environment rather than try to port to a C-only environment. But I am surprised that a C-only environment would mess up in this way, even on mainframes. _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
