Re: lua.c and OS error codes

["Mark Edgar" <medgar123@...>]

On 6/14/07, eugeny gladkih <john@gladkih.com> wrote:
> >>>>> "LHdF" == Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo <lhf@tecgraf.puc-rio.br> writes:
>
>  >> A 'return 1453' in a Lua main chunk doesn't set the error code that's
>  LHdF> I think error codes are restricted to 0-255. This is not
>  LHdF> your point, but it's good to keep in mind.
>
> Windows supports full 32bit process exit codes.

Windows apparently supports exit codes from 0 to 4294967295 and POSIX
supports exit codes from 0 to 255, but C only supports two exit codes:
EXIT_SUCCESS==0 and EXIT_FAILURE, which is a non-zero but otherwise
unspecified value.

    -Mark