In article <40e71339@news.povray.org> , Wolfgang Wieser <wwi### [at] gmxde>  
wrote:

> Maybe you could even tell us where you found this information.

Section 5.1.2.2.3 of the ISO C 1999 standard - this is the section
specifying that main returns an "int" to the host environment.  It also
explicitly states that if and only if the result is _not_ an "int" the
behavior is implementation defined.  It does not make any provisions for
range reductions performed by the host environment.

Of course, this does not answer a more relevant _rhetoric_ question: Why is
there a need to butcher the program result on some systems in the first
place!  A simple C "int" certainly does not require extraordinary amounts of
memory...

    Thorsten

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