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Roberto Ierusalimschy <roberto@inf.puc-rio.br> wrote:
>
> 277c277
> <   exit(status);
> ---
> >   return (exit(status), 0);

That's an error because exit() doesn't return a value :-)

I think in this case the compiler is wrong to produce the warning. Good
implementations have an annotation on exit() to say it never returns.
This is not a bug in Lua.

Tony.
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