Thorsten Froehlich wrote:

> In article <40e6ae1c@news.povray.org> , Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde>
> wrote:
> 
>> This is probably a bad idea. It looks like __STDC_VERSION__ is
>> significantly larger than 128. Some UNIX systems use only 1 byte to store
>> the exit code of a program and hence, this will fail on these systems.
> 
> Then those systems are not compatible even with ANSI C. -- Too bad, we do
> not support such outdated systems!
> 
OOPS Thorsten: 

FreeBSD (as e.g. also used inside a Mac computer) is most likely 
such a system!

me@x86-freebsd1# sh -c "exit 2000" ; echo $?
208
...whic is the LSByte of 2000. 

And there are others, too. 

Wolfgang

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