Xenix 386 v2.3 bug?

[Paul De Bra]

In article <40 at maxx.UUCP> tyager at maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:
>...
>2. return(value) from main() doesn't work the same as exit(value)

According to the new K&R book return and exit should be equivalent in
ANSI C. However, I don't think this used to be the case before.

return is a C statement which causes main to return a value to its caller,
and this may prevent some necessary cleanup in older implementations.
exit is a library function which does the necessary cleanup and then
terminates the process.

Paul.
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